Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr, who was removed from the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal editorial team on Aug. 10 after BIP-110 drew just 2.53% miner support and its minority chain stopped after two blocks, has since said a Sept. 1 hard fork tied to BIP-110 would launch as a separate blockchain with a new token and use BLAKE2b as its proof-of-work algorithm instead of Bitcoin's SHA-256d. Dashjr said the algorithm was selected randomly. He described BLAKE2b as more suitable for general CPU and GPU mining and more CPU-friendly than SHA-256d, a change intended to reduce the advantage held by existing Bitcoin ASIC mining machines. The development adds a new technical direction to a dispute that had already exposed tensions around Bitcoin's informal governance, after fellow editors cited conflicts of interest, limited editorial involvement and procedural concerns in removing Dashjr from the BIP editor list.