On August 8, the Bitcoin ABC development team published an announcement regarding the November hard fork changes with plans to finish the latest codebase by August 15. The proposal falls in line with the ABC developer’s upgrade timeline and contains about five different changes that will soon be ready for testing.
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Bitcoin ABC Publishes Plans and Consensus Changes for the Upcoming BCH November Upgrade
The Bitcoin Cash community has plans to upgrade the network once again with consensus changes this November. Just recently, news.Bitcoin.com reported on Bitcoin ABC developers announcing they will be releasing new code on August 15th for testing. On August 8, the ABC development team revealed the changes they plan to add to the 0.18.0 codebase that includes about five new features. The ABC developers say there’s only one week left before the official code-completion date and they want to remind and update the BCH community with the latest developments.
The new changes that have been completed and will undergo testing on August 15 include:
- Canonical transaction ordering (more info here)
- Enforcement of minimum transaction size of 100 bytes to prevent attacks on the Merkle tree (more info)
- Activation code and implementation for OP_CHECKDATASIG and OP_CHECKDATASIGVERIFY (more info)
- Make push-only mandatory for scriptsig (more info)
Another change that is currently still in progress, but expected to be ready by next week, is a modified fee structure which would allow a significant decrease in transaction fees. ABC programmers explain that a modified fee structure is not necessarily a strict consensus change, but nevertheless will be included in the 0.18.0 version.
