Bitcoin Governance

Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fork has produced only two blocks since splitting on Saturday, while the main Bitcoin network has continued advancing. With the breakaway chain inheriting Bitcoin’s mining difficulty but offering no established market value, its difficulty adjustment could be more than six years away.

Simple Mining mined Bitcoin block 961,634 on the main chain without signaling support for BIP-110, even though its pool, Ocean, had backed the proposal by default. The move highlighted the limited hashrate support behind the attempted fork and the growing relevance of miner-level block construction tools.