What Is BIP-110 and Why Has the Bitcoin Fork Stopped Producing Blocks?

TLDR

• The BIP-110 enforcing chain is frozen at block 961,633 while Bitcoin’s main chain has reached block 961,744, a gap of 111 blocks
• Only 51 of 2,016 blocks in the previous period signaled support, equal to 2.53%, and zero blocks have signaled since mandatory phase began
• A pseudonymous group called Roughnecks mined both BIP-110 blocks using Ocean’s DATUM protocol
• Michael Saylor estimates 99.85% of Bitcoin’s hashpower stayed with the main chain
• At current hashpower levels, the fork could take roughly 25 years to reach its first difficulty adjustment

Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fork has effectively stalled after producing just two blocks. The enforcing branch has been stuck at block 961,633 since Saturday, while the main Bitcoin chain continued to advance normally.

Bitcoin worked exactly as designed. BIP-110 was free to fork, and the network was free not to follow. The result was decisive: about 99.85% of Bitcoin's hashpower stayed with Bitcoin. The BIP-110 branch mined only two blocks and is already more than 80 blocks behind.

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