Matt Corallo, a longtime Bitcoin developer and BIP-54 co-author, sees an 80% chance that the “Great Consensus Cleanup,” proposed in 2019, will be Bitcoin’s next soft fork. The upgrade targets four lingering consensus issues: poison blocks, time warp bugs, Merkle malleability, and duplicate coinbase transactions. None of the flaws is urgent, but all could negatively affect the network. According to developers surveyed at TABconf, activation is not expected before September 2027, with most anticipating 2028 or later. The proposal could also establish a deployment playbook for future soft forks and help reduce the political and social friction surrounding protocol changes.
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