BIP-110 failed to activate on Aug. 8 after winning only about 2.5% of Bitcoin miner hashpower, far below its 55% activation threshold. Nodes running the proposal split from the Bitcoin mainnet at block height 961632, but the minority chain later stopped producing blocks because it had less than 3% of total network hashpower while inheriting the existing mining difficulty. Bitcoin Mechanic, a supporter of the proposal, said in a personal capacity that the result showed Bitcoin had suffered "protocol capture," arguing that large mining pool operators coordinated to influence consensus rules and weaken node sovereignty. Critics rejected that interpretation. Cysic founder and CEO Leo Fan said the difficulty adjustment mechanism protected the main chain and that BIP-110’s forced-activation design was the central problem. An anonymous owner of 1win said the proposal received 2.53% support, below the 55% activation threshold, and that the main chain continues to run normally. Some supporters are now considering a hard fork (non-backward-compatible network split) to change the PoW algorithm (mining security method), while Bitcoin Mechanic said node operations would resume after a Bitcoin Knots update.