BIP-110 Temporary Soft Fork Faces Miner Resistance, Triggers Minor Fork

BIP-110, a proposed temporary soft fork restricting some uses of arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions, entered its mandatory-signaling window with miners producing 59 consecutive non-signaling blocks. Nodes enforcing the proposal were left on a two-block branch, 57 blocks behind Bitcoin’s dominant proof-of-work chain. As of 6:34 a.m. UTC on Aug. 9, direct explorer data put the dominant chain at block 961,690, while the BIP-110 enforcing branch remained at 961,633. Its latest block was roughly eight hours and 45 minutes old. [...] The zero-of-59 result establishes a clear absence of dominant-chain signaling to date while leaving the final outcome open. So far, the deadline has produced a measurable minority fork with little observed mining support, while the Coinbase and Kraken status feeds showed normal Bitcoin operations.