BIP-1102026-08-15 18:56:12BIP-110 fork mined only four blocks in seven days, with supporters targeting a Blake2b switch in SeptemberThe BIP-110 branch split from the Bitcoin mainnet on Aug. 8 at block height 961632, but block production has barely moved since then. According to Odaily, citing Bitcoin.com News, the Roughnecks mining pool has produced only four blocks over the following seven days, leaving the chain stalled at height 961635. Supporters of the fork now plan, as early as September, to replace the proof-of-work hash function with Blake2b from SHA-256. That change would require updates to block header validation and upgrades across mining pools, wallets, explorers and indexing tools. The forked coin has not received exchange support and has no market price so far. More than 400,000 transfers are still waiting for confirmation, and the report said many of them were created unintentionally by users because the chain lacks replay protection. Tokens mined by Roughnecks cannot be used until they have received 100 confirmations.1470
Bitcoin2026-08-11 02:53:03BIP submissions are open to anyone, but BIP-110 shows how hard approval really isBitcoin’s BIP-110 soft fork stalled within hours after launch last weekend, with the minority chain producing just one more block before freezing and drifting farther behind the main chain. Roughnecks, which had rallied support for the proposal, later said it would stop mining and asked other miners to step back for now. Ocean, the pool that served as the main signaling base, saw its hash rate fall from about 36 EH/s to 1.25 EH/s over the weekend, leaving it far below the proposal’s 55% lock-in threshold. The episode has also drawn attention to a basic point about Bitcoin Improvement Proposals, or BIPs: almost anyone can submit one. Under BIP 3, which took effect in 2025 and replaced BIP 2 after nine years, a proposal starts with discussion on the bitcoindev mailing list, moves into a formal draft, and then goes to the bitcoin/bips repository as a pull request. Editors check scope and formatting, assign numbers, and merge qualifying drafts, but they do not judge whether an idea is good policy. What decides whether a BIP advances comes later. The article breaks that process into three hurdles: editorial acceptance, rough consensus across developers and users, and then actual network activation. BIP-110, while formally registered and technically implementable, ran into the harder part — winning broad support and economic adoption.1790
BIP-1102026-08-09 10:31:50PyBLOCK, Roughnecks Pause Signaling for BIP-110Bitcoin News reported on X that PyBLOCK, one of the largest Bitcoin mining pools supporting BIP-110, has been advised to pause signaling for BIP-110 until further notice. PyBLOCK said it will continue mining blocks that are "completely clean and free of junk information," consistent with its pre-BIP-110 approach. Roughnecks confirmed the pause, saying: "Yes, temporarily stopped. BIP-110 is not over, but mining under the current algorithm is mostly wasted. There will be more news later." Bitcoin News shared the update on X, identifying PyBLOCK as one of the largest BIP-110-backed pools. Both pools have now paused signaling for BIP-110, according to the report. PyBLOCK said the advice to pause applies until further notice. Roughnecks added that the pause is temporary and that more information is expected. The report did not provide details on when signaling might resume.1730
Roughnecks2026-08-09 05:39:58Roughnecks, a mining pool backing BIP-110, says it will halt mining operationsRoughnecks, a mining pool that supports the BIP-110 protocol, said on X that it will stop conducting mining operations under the Roughnecks name after a team meeting. The group also urged miners on the BIP-110 chain, under the current algorithm, to pause mining until further notice. Roughnecks said the move should not be viewed as a failure of the BIP-110 movement, describing it instead as a transition into the next stage. It thanked supporters and said the fight would continue, but that Roughnecks would no longer serve as the vanguard. Earlier, the pool discovered the first two BIP-110 blocks, which it said remain the only two BIP-110 blocks found so far. The statement was carried by Odaily.1710
Farside Insig2026-08-07 12:32:40Farside Insights Says Some BIP-110 Miners Used Out-of-Band Relays to Slip Non-Standard Spam Into BlocksFarside Insights said miners marked as supporting BIP-110 are using out-of-band relay networks to include non-standard spam transactions in the blocks they mine. The account cited two suspect transactions, sized 10KB and 38.5KB, both mined by Roughnecks, the dominant BIP-110 miner at present. It also said the transactions did not appear on mempool.space or in expected block templates, and were flagged as “extra transactions” on miningpool.observer, which is run by @0xB10C. Farside Insights said it backtracked the blocks with bitcoin-cli’s invalidateblock command and ran testmempoolaccept on the transactions, with both returning disallowed. On that basis, the account said the transactions were non-standard and were not relayed normally under Bitcoin Core rules. It added that a person inside Roughnecks’ pool who is unhappy with the BIP-110 stance may be using an out-of-band relay system to insert the transactions into blocks.1890
