Bitcoin BIP-110 split widens as fork freezes at 2 blocks
Bitcoins BIP-110 split widened further on Aug. 9, with the enforcing branch still unable to produce a third block hours after mandatory signaling began. The latest BIP-110 Monitor snapshot showed the minority chain stuck at block 961,633 while Bitcoins 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 113 blocks on the dominant chain. 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 Bitcoins hashpower stayed with Bitcoin. The BIP-110 branch mined only two blocks and is already more than 80 blocks behind. — Michael Saylor (@saylor) August 9, 2026 Bitcoin BIP-110 branch remains frozen after two blocks BIP-110 enforcing nodes began rejecting non-signaling blocks at height 961,632 on Aug. 8. Roughnecks then produced an alternative block at that height and followed it with block 961,633. OCEANs BIP-110 block record confirms