Author: Jonathan Toomim 2015-12-29 12:42:55
Published on: 2015-12-29T12:42:55+00:00
It is suggested that there is no need to worry about the scenario where someone may have a timelocked big transaction with a lost private key, unless there is a specific reason to suspect such a situation. If a soft fork is announced a few months prior to it becoming active and nobody complains about it destroying their secret stash, then the process can proceed fairly. This was discussed in a message posted on bitcoin-dev by jl2012 on Dec 28, 2015.
Updated on: 2023-06-11T02:47:24.651257+00:00