{"id":642447,"date":"2026-08-12T22:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=838971"},"modified":"2026-08-12T22:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:19:06","slug":"after-bip-110-flops-bitcoins-next-soft-fork-faces-a-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/after-bip-110-flops-bitcoins-next-soft-fork-faces-a-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"After BIP-110 Flops, Bitcoin\u2019s Next Soft Fork Faces a Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/after-bip-110-flops-bitcoins-next-soft-fork-faces-a-showdown-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"BIP-54, formally known as \u201cConsensus Cleanup image\/screenshot.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Bitcoin developers have finished a proposed security cleanup called BIP-54, but winning enough support to activate it may prove harder than writing the code. BIP-54, formally known as \u201cConsensus Cleanup,\u201d would make four narrow changes to Bitcoin\u2019s core rules. The proposal is designed to close old weaknesses and unusual edge cases, not add new ways [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin developers have finished a proposed security cleanup called BIP-54, but winning enough support to activate it may prove harder than writing the code. BIP-54, formally known as \u201cConsensus Cleanup,\u201d would make four narrow changes to Bitcoin\u2019s core rules. The proposal is designed to close old weaknesses and unusual edge cases, not add new ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":642448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-642447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}