Bitcoin Miner Rejects BIP-110 Fork Amid Hasrate Support Shortfall
A Bitcoin miner named Simple Mining has rejected the BIP-110 fork despite mining through Ocean's DATUM protocol, which supported it. The miner produced block 961,634 on the main chain, two blocks past the point where BIP-110 supporters broke away.
Ocean had switched miners to signal for BIP-110 by default in July and accounted for nearly all of the proposal's small amount of mining support before the split. However, Simple Mining used DATUM to give individual miners control over the blocks they produce, allowing them to leave the BIP-110 signal out.
The minority branch produced just two blocks before stalling, while the main Bitcoin chain advanced more than 200 blocks ahead. The hashrate support for BIP-110 peaked at about 2.6%, far below the 55% threshold it needed to restrict non-financial data in transactions for a year.
The decision of Simple Mining underscores that 'hashrate is a vote you cannot fake, and we decided the proposal wasn't worth following,' as stated by Simple Mining on X.