A long-running argument inside Bitcoin finally produced a chain split on Saturday, and it was over almost before it began. The breakaway network mined two blocks in roughly eight hours and th
A long-running argument inside Bitcoin finally produced a chain split on Saturday, and it was over almost before it began. The breakaway network mined two blocks in roughly eight hours and then stalled, falling dozens of blocks behind the main chain while Bitcoin carried on producing one about every ten minutes.
The split triggered at block 961,632, when nodes running BIP-110 software began rejecting any block that did not signal support for the proposal. A block mined by AntPool without that signal was accepted by the main network and rejected by the BIP-110 nodes. A miner on the Ocean pool produced the alternative that the minority chain then followed.
