#protocol upgrades

2020 and Beyond: Bitcoin’s Potential Protocol Upgrades

Bitcoin’s consensus layer has remained unchanged for over two years now. Since Segregated Witness (SegWit), which activated in August 2017, no hard fork or soft fork protocol upgrades have been deployed at all*, marking Bitcoin’s longest stretch without consensus forks so far.

But this stretch may soon come to an end: several backward-compatible soft forks are currently in development.…