Bitcoin BIP-110 Fork Falters Amid Widespread Miner Resistance
The Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 110, also known as the Reduced Data Temporary Soft Fork, has effectively stalled after producing only two blocks following its split from the main Bitcoin network. This development highlights the difficulty of changing the protocol without broad support from miners and node operators.
The BIP-110 chain separated from Bitcoin at block 961,632 after software enforcing the proposal began rejecting blocks that did not signal support for the rule change. However, miner support for BIP-110 was found to be only around 2.53%, far below the 55% threshold required for activation under the proposal's deployment mechanism.
The result is a striking demonstration of how Bitcoin's decentralized consensus process can prevent a controversial rule change from becoming a network-wide upgrade when miners and other participants do not move together.