The Chain Split That Lasted Two Blocks

What looked for eight months like Bitcoin’s most contested governance fight resolved in under 48 hours and resulted in two blocks. That’s the entire output of BIP-110’s enforcing chain, from mandatory signaling at block 961,632 on August 8 to the moment it stopped producing blocks at all. Roughly 97% of Bitcoin’s mining power never signaled. The enforcing nodes split off anyway, exactly as designed, and followed a chain with almost no hashrate left to build it. The Spam War That Built BIP-110...