A Bitcoin rule-change fork has stalled after producing just two blocks, facing a six-year wait to adjust mining difficulty due to low miner support.
A Bitcoin fork triggered by the BIP-110 proposal has stalled 326 blocks behind the main network after producing only two blocks since splitting on Saturday. Bitcoin’s primary chain has mined over 300 blocks in the same period, widening the gap.
The fork inherited Bitcoin’s high mining difficulty but lacks market value, offering miners little incentive to support it. The chain cannot adjust its difficulty until it reaches 2,016 blocks, a milestone now estimated to take more than six years.
BIP-110, which aimed to block non-payment data in transactions, failed to secure the required 55% miner support, peaking at just 2.6%. Observers note it is too early to declare the fork dead, but its viability remains uncertain.