BIP-110 Fails To Activate After Receiving About 2.5% Miner Support

BIP-110 failed to activate after receiving about 2.5% miner support by the activation deadline, and the nodes enforcing the proposal forked from the mainnet at block height 961,632. The minority chain later stopped producing blocks.According to ChainCatcher, BIP-110 supporter Bitcoin Mechanic said the outcome showed Bitcoin had faced “protocol capture,” arguing that large mining pool operators coordinated to influence consensus rules and weaken node sovereignty. He said the minority chain inherited mining difficulty from the main network, leaving it with less than 3% of total network hash power and causing block production to stall.Some supporters are considering a hard fork to change the PoW algorithm, and Bitcoin Mechanic said he will wait for a Bitcoin Knots update before resuming node operations.Cysic founder and CEO Leo Fan said the difficulty adjustment mechanism protected the main chain and argued that BIP-110’s forced activation design was the main problem. An anonymous owner of 1win said the proposal received only 2.53% support, below the 55% activation threshold, while the main chain continues to operate.