#BIP110SoftForkFails A Definitive Governance Rejection
On August 8, 2026, Bitcoin experienced one of its most decisive governance failures. BIP-110 (Reduced Data Temporary Softfork) triggered a chain split at block height 961,632—but the minority chain produced only two blocks before stalling completely. Within hours, the fork was effectively dead, with roughly 99.85% of Bitcoin’s hashpower remaining on the original chain.
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What BIP-110 Proposed
Authored by pseudonymous developer Dathon Ohm with early input from Luke Dashjr, BIP-110 aimed to temporarily restrict arbitrary non-financial dat