Bitcoin’s BIP-110 supporters split onto minority chain as main network pulls ahead
BIP-110 is a proposed one-year change that limits non-financial data on Bitcoin and has sparked a debate over how Bitcoin's block space should be used.
At 7:56 p.m. EDT on Saturday, Following Bitcoin’s chain split at block height 961632, BIP-110-aligned mining pool Roughnecks managed to squeeze out a second block at height 961633, while the main chain has already left it in the dust at 961651.
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August 8, 2026, 11:00 pmBIP-110 is a proposed one-year change that limits non-financial data on Bitcoin and has sparked a debate over how Bitcoin's block space should be used.
The deployment milestone tests whether enforcing nodes can sustain the change amid limited miner signaling and discussion of a hard-fork fallback.
Onchain data confirms the BIP-110 activation period is live, and Bitcoin’s blockchain has fractured into two versions. Stats show Bitcoin block 961632 was mined by mining heavyweight Antpool, while BIP-110 supporter Roughnecks produced a rival version of block 961632.
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