BIP-110 Has Effectively Failed to Activate on Bitcoin
A small group of Bitcoin supporters tried to push through a rule change called BIP-110 over the weekend, but it did not pass. The separate ...
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BIP-110 Has Effectively Failed to Activate on Bitcoin
A small group of Bitcoin supporters tried to push through a rule change called BIP-110 over the weekend, but it did not pass. The separate version of Bitcoin they created to enforce the change has produced only two new blocks in about eight hours, while the real Bitcoin network has kept running normally and added
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