Bitcoin News
By James Thorp
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Difficulty at 127.48 Trillion Crushes the Minority Fork. Here's the core problem. Both chains inherited the same difficulty level — 127.
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Wildcatters, Miracles, and a Fork Running Out of Road. Roughnecks did celebrate. The group, formally called the Roughnecks' 110th Mining Division, marked…
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What Roughnecks Actually Need to Survive. The fork's path forward comes down to two things: more hashrate or a strategic pivot.
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The chain split happened fast. At block height 961632, the Bitcoin network fractured — and the BIP-110 minority fork has been playing catch-up ever since, now trailing the…
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Mining pool Roughnecks triggered the split by producing a block at height 961633 in support of BIP-110.
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Here's the core problem. Both chains inherited the same difficulty level — 127.48 trillion — when the split happened at 961632. The main chain has the hashrate to handle that.
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Luke Dashjr, the developer behind Bitcoin Knots, didn't mince words. He called the situation an attack from hostile miners against the Bitcoin network and urged users to upgrade…
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Simple Mining, an Iowa-based operation, made things more complicated by mining block 961634 on the main chain.
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Ocean's involvement is murky at best. The pool has associations with BIP-110, but its hashrate doesn't uniformly back the minority fork.
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See also: BIP-110 Replay Attack Puts Bitcoin Holders at Risk Before Any Chain Split
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Roughnecks did celebrate. The group, formally called the Roughnecks' 110th Mining Division, marked the milestone of mining two BIP-110 blocks, comparing the effort to wildcatting…
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Matthew Kratter, a prominent BIP-110 supporter, was blunter. He basically said a miracle would be needed for the minority chain to surpass the main chain.
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Maitreya Lockwood took a different angle. Lockwood called for fresh starts and framed the split as a chance to reinforce what decentralized money is supposed to stand for.
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BTCbello's reaction was more raw. The sentiment, described as mourning for Bitcoin, captures how emotionally charged the BIP-110 debate has become.
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Discussions about changing the minority chain's mining algorithm have surfaced. It's probably the most dramatic option on the table — a new proof-of-work approach would…
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