Bitcoin BIP-110 misses voluntary 55% miner threshold as mandatory signaling nears

Bitcoin's BIP-110 soft fork can no longer achieve voluntary lock-in during the current 2,016-block difficulty period after only 28 signaling blocks appeared among 1,108 by Aug. 2, or 2.53%, far below the 1,109 blocks needed for a 55% threshold. Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said the first 24 signals all came from DATUM miners sharing rewards through OCEAN, though public blockchain data confirms the low signaling rate rather than the full attribution. The proposal would temporarily restrict several forms of transaction data, including OP_RETURN size and some Taproot-related features, for 52,416 blocks, or about one year. It now moves toward a mandatory signaling window beginning at block 961,632, when enforcing nodes would reject non-signaling blocks, a design that critics say could put supporters on a minority chain if most hashpower continues mining as usual.