Developer Consensus May Be Converging on a Bitcoin Soft Fork Proposal: Blockspace

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For the first time in more than four years, Bitcoiners are moving forward with changes to the project's underlying software, Blockspace writes.

Once developers begin to form rough consensus, then the actual activation of the soft fork moves to the miners, community and investors.

Bitcoin script is Bitcoin’s lower-level programming language used for, among other things, creating and sending transactions.

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Author / Journalist: Colin Harper, Blockspace Media

Category: Crypto

Markets: United StatesCubaMali

Topics: Support Developers Bips Proposals Bitcoin’s Bitcoin Changes Fork Soft Coindesk Blockspace

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Published On: 2025-03-17 @ 15:37:25 (17 hours ago)

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News Source URL: coindesk.com

Language: English

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Sentences: 56 lines

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