Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fork is back, but its backers want to replace the miners and change PoW

Bitcoin’s BIP-110 push failed to gain meaningful mining support over the weekend, leaving the proposal stranded on a minority chain that produced only two blocks before stalling at height 961,633.The soft fork was designed to temporarily restrict several forms of arbitrary data on Bitcoin and required 55% miner signaling during its deployment window.Instead, signaling peaked at only a few percentage points before mandatory signaling began at block 961,632, where BIP-110 nodes rejected blocks they considered invalid and split from the dominant chain. Roughnecks mined the minority branch’s first two blocks, but no third block followed.Bitcoin BIP-110 Caused a Chain Split (Source: BIP 110 Situation Monitor)This outcome had shifted the debate from whether BIP-110 could activate to what should happen to it and to one of its most visible backers, Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr.BIP-110 collapse sparks backlash against DashjrThe weekend split drew sharp criticism from Bitcoin figures who framed the outcome as a rejection of BIP-110.Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said roughly 99.85% of Bitcoin’s hashpower remained on the dominant chain, leaving BIP-110 with about 0.15%. At that r...