BIP-110 Branch Hits Roadblock as Gap Wider Between Forks
The BIP-110-enforcing branch of Bitcoin has stalled at block 961,633 after producing only two blocks, while the non-enforcing chain advanced to 961,721. This widening gap between the two branches is a sign that the enforcing fork remains stuck at Bitcoin's full mining difficulty.
Mandatory signaling for BIP-110 began at block 961,632 on Saturday, but with little hashpower support, only 51 of the preceding 2,016 blocks signaled in favor of the branch. During this period, BIP-110 nodes reject blocks that do not signal through version bit 4, while ordinary Bitcoin nodes accept both signaling and non-signaling blocks.
The first two blocks on the enforcing branch were mined by a pseudonymous mining group called Roughnecks using Ocean's Decentralized Alternative Templates for Universal Mining (DATUM) protocol. The latest block on the branch was mined around 12 hours before being reported, according to the BIP-110 monitor updated at 10:19 am UTC.