Bitcoin Miners Demand Ousting of OCEAN Leadership After BIP-110 Fork Disaster
Bitcoin mining pool OCEAN faces an escalating crisis after a controversial admission.The pool redirected some users' hashrate to the failed BIP-110 minority chain without clear consent.
The incident lasted roughly 18 hours. During that time, affected miners believed they were using non-BIP-110 Stratum templates. Instead, their hardware mined blocks on a separate fork.
Bitcoin Hashrate Crisis at OCEAN
The controversy follows weeks of debate over BIP-110, a proposed Bitcoin protocol change targeting certain types of non-monetary data. BeInCrypto previously reported on the proposal's disputed activation process and the security concerns surrounding the Coldcard incident in its BIP-110 activation update.
OCEAN acknowledged that some miners using its Stratum templates may have been directed to the BIP-110 chain despite selecting the non-BIP-110 option. This incident is particularly damaging given that OCEAN explicitly brands itself on returning full block-template control to individual miners.
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