BIP-110 fails to activate after winning only 2.53% miner support

BIP-110 failed to activate when its deadline arrived after securing about 2.5% of miner hashrate support, well below the 55% threshold cited by 1win's anonymous owner. Nodes running the proposal forked from the Bitcoin mainnet at block height 961632, but the minority chain stopped producing blocks because it inherited mining difficulty calibrated for the main network despite controlling less than 3% of total hashrate. BIP-110 supporter Bitcoin Mechanic, speaking in a personal capacity, said the outcome showed Bitcoin had fallen into "protocol capture," arguing that large mining pool operators coordinated to shape consensus rules and weaken node sovereignty. Some backers are now weighing a hard fork (non-backward-compatible network split) to change the PoW (proof-of-work, mining-based security system) algorithm, while Bitcoin Mechanic said he would wait for a Bitcoin Knots update before restarting his node. Cysic founder and CEO Leo Fan said Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment mechanism protected the main chain and that BIP-110's forced-activation design was the core problem, while the 1win anonymous owner said the main chain continues to run.

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