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I've heard about year 2038 problem and I'm worried I've read about Bitcoin measuring time with 32 bits, why aren't developers worried about Y2038P only 15 years away?
Y2038P was about signed integers.
In Bitcoin, block time is an unsigned integer, such case doesn't correspond to a Y2038P, but a Y2107P.
Thus the numbers are loosely these:
2^32 / 60 / 60 / 24 / 365.25 ~= 136;
1970 + 136 = 2106
instead of these:
2^32 / 60 / 60 / 24 / 365.25 / 2 ~= 68;
1970 + 68 = 2038
Because we will be dead by 2106, it's not current developers task to worry about.
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