Crypto
BIP-110 Soft Fork Fails to Gain Mining Support, Blockchain Splits
A temporary soft fork proposal called BIP-110 aims to restrict certain uses of arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions.
The proposal entered its mandatory-signaling window, but miners failed to signal support for the plan.
As a result, a two-block branch of nodes enforcing the proposal was left behind, with 57 blocks fewer than the dominant proof-of-work chain.
The BIP-110 enforcing branch produced only two blocks at heights 961,632 and 961,633, both attributed to miners using OCEAN, before halting.
With a total of 1,957 blocks remaining in the mandatory-signaling window, the outcome is still uncertain.