Bitcoin BIP-110 split widens as fork freezes at 2 blocks

Bitcoin’s BIP-110 split widened further on Aug. 9, with the enforcing branch still unable to produce a third block hours after mandatory signaling began. Summary BIP-110 remains frozen at block 961,633 while Bitcoin’s main chain has advanced through block 961,744. Current-period signaling stands at zero among 113 main-chain blocks mined since mandatory signaling began Saturday. OCEAN reports 257 PH/s on its BIP-110 endpoint, with no new block for 17 hours. Roughnecks mined both BIP-110 blocks using OCEAN’s DATUM system at Bitcoin’s 127.48 trillion difficulty level. Saylor estimates 99.85% of hashpower rejected the fork, though that figure remains his own calculation. The latest BIP-110 Monitor snapshot showed the minority chain stuck at block 961,633 while Bitcoin’s dominant, non-enforcing chain had reached 961,744. That increased the gap to 111 blocks from 88 earlier Sunday. The stall offers the clearest test yet of how much mining support BIP-110 has attracted. Only 51 of the 2,016 blocks in the previous difficulty period signaled for the proposal, equal to 2.53%. Since the mandatory window started at block 961,632, the monitor had recorded zero signaling blocks among the first 1...