BIP110

Luke Dashjr has been removed as a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal editor after a dispute around BIP-110, marking a rare governance flashpoint inside …

Bitcoin’s ledger is a chain of blocks, each one a batch of transactions added by miners, firms running warehouses of specialised computers …

Bitcoin mining pool OCEAN has acknowledged that a portion of its miners’ hash rate was unintentionally directed to the BIP-110 chain for …

DATUM moves that decision back to the individual miner. An operator can build its own block using its own bitcoin software while …

Ocean, a bitcoin mining pool, had been backing BIP-110 by default. Simple Mining, a company that runs mining machines through Ocean, used …

Roughnecks Pulls the Plug as the Fork Freezes The group announced the decision shortly before 4 a.m. UTC on Aug. 9, following …

The minority chain created by BIP-110 supporters on the Bitcoin network has lagged significantly behind the main $BTC chain. In the divergence …

The breakaway chain inherited bitcoin’s mining difficulty with only a tiny share of hashpower, leaving blocks hours apart while both chains still …

The proposal has scant support from bitcoin miners and influential commentators have also voiced their opposition. www.coindesk.com

If a minority chain appears this weekend, buyers could replay signed fork-coin sales on bitcoin itself, making doing nothing the safest move …