BIP-110 Fork Supporters Accused of Attacking Bitcoin Network

The dispute over Bitcoin's BIP-110 fork continues as Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz argues that supporters who rejected the soft-fork result and created a new chain are essentially attacking the network.

Schwartz exchanged views with loogart, a supporter of the fork, where he stated that the group's decision to continue on a separate proof-of-work chain after losing the consensus fight amounts to an attack. loogart countered that they had accepted defeat and were simply building a separate chain.

However, Schwartz rejected this framing, saying that inventing language to make disagreement impossible to reason through is not a good-faith disagreement but rather an attack. He also stated that there's evidence that when the group does so, it's not genuine.

The BIP-110 chain split from Bitcoin's main chain at block 961,632 after failing to draw enough miner support and went live on August 31 through a flag-day hard fork. The update replaced SHA256d with BLAKE2b as the mining algorithm and introduced new block header rules.