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    "Implement BIP 54 Consensus Cleanup validation rules without activating on mainnet",
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      "P2 because it implements consensus rules for the BIP 54 soft fork to resolve known DoS and timewarp vulnerabilities",
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      "P3 because it aligns mempool policy with BIP 54 validation rules",
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  "summary": "This pull request implements the validation rules for the BIP 54 Consensus Cleanup soft fork on regtest while keeping mainnet activation inactive. The rules address legacy sigops computational DoS, timewarp attacks, negative difficulty adjustment periods (Murch-Zawy), unspendable coinbase height timelocks, and 64-byte Merkle tree collision vulnerabilities. Around 95% of the patch consists of unit tests, functional test coverage, and test vectors.",
  "problem": "Bitcoin consensus retains legacy vulnerabilities, including timewarp difficulty manipulation, quadratic hashing attacks from legacy sigops, and potential 64-byte transaction collisions in Merkle trees. Without implementing BIP 54 rules in Bitcoin Core, these attack vectors cannot be thoroughly tested across node validation infrastructure in preparation for potential mainnet deployment.",
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    "Miner enforcement of Murch-Zawy rule: raised by fjahr, spun out into PR #35949, merged into master, and rebased here.",
    "Validation result classification (TX_CONSENSUS vs policy) prior to activation: raised by polespinasa, resolved by author with rationale in commit message.",
    "Mempool transition behavior and sigops counting edge cases: discussed by ariard, resolved with author explanation of acceptnonstdtxs handling."
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     "note": "Concept ACK."
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     "note": "Concept ACK; questioned TX_CONSENSUS state categorization before activation."
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