BIP-110 Fork Falters: Bitcoin's Minority Chain Struggles to Gain Traction

A temporary soft fork designed to limit non-financial data on Bitcoin, BIP-110, caused a split at block 961,632. However, its branch produced only two blocks in eight hours, compared to 48 on the dominant chain.

The minority fork technically exists but lacks computing power, making it almost unusable.

At block 961,632, AntPool produced a block without the signal required by BIP-110. Ordinary nodes accepted it, while nodes that had activated the proposal rejected it, creating two separate chains.

The fork's slow progress is due to its retention of Bitcoin's mining difficulty and limited miner support.