BIP-110 failed to activate on Aug. 8 after drawing 2.53% miner support against a 55% threshold, sending enforcing nodes onto a minority chain that split from Bitcoin at block 961632 and then effectively froze near block 961633 because it inherited mainnet difficulty with less than 3% of global hash power. Bitcoin Mechanic called the outcome evidence of "protocol capture," said his faith in node sovereignty had been broken and backed a hard fork to a new proof-of-work algorithm, while Cysic founder and CEO Leo Fan and the anonymous owner of 1win said the stall showed Bitcoin's conservative governance and difficulty adjustment working as designed. In separate exchanges on X, JAN3 chief executive officer Samson Mow said Bitcoin Core developers' handling of OP_RETURN and what he called the "Zhao/Newberry improprieties" helped trigger the BIP-110 backlash.