David Schwartz, Ripple CTO emeritus, said on August 31 that supporters of Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fork moved from governance into an attack after rejecting the soft-fork result and continuing on a separate proof-of-work chain. The dispute, including an exchange with fork supporter loogart, centers on whether losing a consensus contest justifies creating a new Bitcoin chain. The chain went live through a flag-day hard fork at block 961,640, replacing SHA256d with BLAKE2b, adding a 164-byte block header and temporarily limiting block size to roughly 300 kilobytes until September 2027. Bitcoin Knots developer Luke Dashjr defended the technical changes, while the fork had previously struggled to attract miners and split from Bitcoin’s main chain at block 961,632. The wider dispute stems from Bitcoin Core removing its former OP_RETURN data limit, a change that allowed more non-monetary content, including Ordinals and Runes, into blocks.