BIP-110 Proposal Stalls as Miners Fail to Support Controversial Bitcoin Changes

Bitcoin's contentious BIP-110 proposal has entered its mandatory phase, but it appears to be losing momentum. With only 2.53% of prior blocks signaling support, the enforcing branch stalled at block 961,633 while the main chain reached 961,731.

The proposal aims to restrict certain transaction structures for a one-year period, but it has failed to gain broad miner support. BIP-110 would limit new output scripts to 34 bytes, OP_RETURN outputs to 83 bytes, and some data pushes and witness elements to 256 bytes.

Roughnecks, a pseudonymous mining operation, produced two BIP-110 blocks before the enforcing branch stopped advancing for about 15 hours. The widening gap between the two chains reflects the difference in computing power assigned to each chain.

The practical risk of transaction replay remains for holders who attempt to transfer coins on the minority branch, as signed transactions could potentially be recognized on both chains without automatic separation of pre-fork balances.