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Bitcoin miner bypasses BIP-110 despite mining through Ocean pool

Simple Mining used Ocean’s DATUM tool to mine a non signaling block on the main chain after BIP-110 support peaked at 2.6% against a stated 55% threshold.

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CoinDesk reports that Simple Mining, a bitcoin mining operator running machines through the Ocean pool, declined to signal support for the controversial BIP-110 fork while still mining on bitcoin’s main chain.

The decision came after Ocean miners were switched to signal for BIP-110 by default in July, even though BIP-110 only had about 2.6% hashrate support, far below the 55% threshold it sought to enforce for restricting storage of non financial data in transactions for a year.

Simple Mining said it mined block 961,634 on the main chain, two blocks past the height where BIP-110 nodes began rejecting non signaling blocks at 961,632, after which the forked chain produced just two blocks before stalling while the main chain advanced more than 200 blocks.

CoinDesk adds that the operator could choose not to signal because it used Ocean’s DATUM protocol, which gives individual miners control over what goes into the blocks they produce, rather than leaving those transaction and signaling decisions to the pool overall.

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