BIP-110 Enforcing Branch Stalls, Widens Bitcoin Chain Gap

The BIP-110-enforcing branch of Bitcoin has stalled after producing just two blocks, widening the gap between it and the non-enforcing chain to 88 blocks. The enforcing branch was last seen at block 961,633, while the non-enforcing chain advanced to block 961,721.

According to a BIP-110 monitoring dashboard, mandatory signaling on the enforcing side has made extremely slow progress as it awaits further blocks to complete the current difficulty-adjustment window. The enforcing branch produced only two blocks before stalling, and mining activity on these early blocks was attributed to a pseudonymous group using Ocean's DATUM mining protocol.

The divergence between the chains began after BIP-110 entered mandatory signaling at block 961,632, during which only 2.53% of blocks in the preceding window signaled support. Mandatory signaling is scheduled to continue through block 963,647, but difficulty adjustment won't fully help until the enforcing side mines through the remainder of the 2,016-block adjustment period.