BIP-110 fork chain stalls after mining only 2 blocks, now over 80 blocks behind Bitcoin mainnet
2026-08-09 19:46
Odaily News: The minority Bitcoin fork chain supporting BIP-110 split at block height 961,632, and stalled after mining only 2 blocks within approximately 8 hours. It is now more than 80 blocks behind the Bitcoin mainnet.
This fork chain inherited Bitcoin's current difficulty, but only about 2.53% of recent blocks signaled support for BIP-110, far below the 55% activation threshold required to avoid a fork. Bitcoin only adjusts difficulty every 2,016 blocks, and based on the current hashrate, it is estimated that this chain would need about 350 days to complete its next difficulty adjustment.
BIP-110 proposes temporarily banning the inscription of non-financial data such as images and text in Bitcoin transactions. Michael Saylor stated that approximately 99.85% of Bitcoin's hashrate remains on the mainnet; since both chains accept identical transactions, transactions on the minority chain may be replayed onto the Bitcoin mainnet.
This fork chain inherited Bitcoin's current difficulty, but only about 2.53% of recent blocks signaled support for BIP-110, far below the 55% activation threshold required to avoid a fork. Bitcoin only adjusts difficulty every 2,016 blocks, and based on the current hashrate, it is estimated that this chain would need about 350 days to complete its next difficulty adjustment.
BIP-110 proposes temporarily banning the inscription of non-financial data such as images and text in Bitcoin transactions. Michael Saylor stated that approximately 99.85% of Bitcoin's hashrate remains on the mainnet; since both chains accept identical transactions, transactions on the minority chain may be replayed onto the Bitcoin mainnet.
