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BIP-110 soft fork stalls on Bitcoin minority chain after weak miner support
The soft fork required 55% miner signaling, but signaling peaked only a few percentage points before nodes rejected blocks as the chain split.
Bitcoin’s BIP-110 soft fork failed to activate after it attracted only limited miner signaling, leaving the proposal stranded on a minority chain that produced two blocks before stalling at block height 961,633, according to CryptoSlate.
The soft fork was intended to temporarily restrict several types of arbitrary data on the Bitcoin network, and it required 55% miner signaling during its deployment window. CryptoSlate reports that signaling peaked only a few percentage points before mandatory signaling began at block 961,632, when BIP-110 nodes rejected blocks they deemed invalid and split from the dominant chain.
Mining on the minority branch produced the first two blocks, but no third block followed, shifting the discussion from activation to what should happen to the proposal and to one of its most visible backers, Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr. CryptoSlate also notes that the weekend split prompted criticism from several prominent Bitcoin figures.
Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said about 99.85% of Bitcoin’s hashpower remained on the dominant chain, implying BIP-110 had roughly 0.15%. In parallel, the BIP editorial process came under scrutiny, with editor Mark “Murch” Erhardt proposing to remove Dashjr and additional developers backing the motion, while the proposal was moved to a GitHub pull request that remained open Monday.
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