Bitcoin News
By Sakamoto Nashi
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Saylor, Bailey, and the Fallout. Michael Saylor put a number on it pretty quickly. He said 99.
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Roughnecks Plan to Keep Mining. BIP-110 isn't completely dead yet, at least not according to its supporters.
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What's Actually at Stake Here. The BIP-110 fight is really a fight about who controls Bitcoin's direction.
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Bitcoin's latest governance fight ended fast. BIP-110, a proposal to restrict certain data on the network, tried to activate over the weekend and produced exactly two blocks…
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The fork needed 55% miner signaling to move forward. It never got close. At block 961,632, support peaked at just a few percentage points — nowhere near the threshold.
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Michael Saylor put a number on it pretty quickly. He said 99.85% of Bitcoin's hashpower stayed on the dominant chain.
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David Bailey went further, calling BIP-110 the least popular soft fork in Bitcoin's history and urging the proposal's backers to sit with that failure and actually think about…
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And then there's the Luke Dashjr situation, which is its own separate mess. Mark "Murch" Erhardt filed a GitHub pull request to remove Dashjr from his role as a BIP editor,…
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Dashjr, for his part, says he followed established processes the whole time. He's pushing back hard on the removal effort and has suggested Murch should be the one removed instead.
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BIP-110 isn't completely dead yet, at least not according to its supporters. Dathon Ohm, the proposal's author, and Dashjr are both advocating for a proof-of-work change — a…
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Read also: BIP-110 Bitcoin Fork Stuck at Two Blocks as Hashpower Stays Away
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The Roughnecks, the mining group that produced those two BIP-110 blocks, announced they're resuming operations.
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Whether that framing gains any traction is probably the key question right now.
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A proof-of-work change would be a genuinely radical move. It wouldn't just tweak Bitcoin's rules at the margins.
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But they're not stopping. And Ohm and Dashjr seem committed to pressing the case.
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