aj on Nostr: It's ethereum's difficulty bomb but for bitcoin! Introduced specially for knots users ...

It's ethereum's difficulty bomb but for bitcoin! Introduced specially for knots users in 2017, without even a PR, let alone any review.

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It is the -softwareexpiry startup option, which is default on. I think most people do not know about it.

https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/28.x-knots/src/validation.cpp#L4458