UPDATED: THE FORK ZERO BLOCKS SIGNALED FOR HAS MINED 800 BLOCKS — DASHJR PICKS BLAKE2b TO ‘FIRE THE MINERS’ — AND CAPS BLOCKS AT 300 KB
Every SHA-256 machine on earth becomes useless on their chain — new hardware, new miners, new coin, copied history.
The BIP-110 chain died in August after the mandatory window closed at zero signaling blocks out of 2,016 — peak support ever was 2.53%. Now it’s moving again. An explorer shows fresh blocks from miners nobody has heard of, fees near zero, and the project’s own dashboard runs a countdown clock to September 1 — the day its backers hard-fork to a new mining algorithm called BLAKE2b. The stated goal, in the author’s own words, is to “fire the miners” who rejected the proposal. Luke Dashjr — who left Ocean this same weekend citing “recent protocol developments” — confirmed the algorithm choice. In plain terms: every SHA-256 machine on earth becomes useless on their chain, and they start over with new hardware, new miners, new wallets, new exchanges, and a new coin that shares nothing with Bitcoin but a copied history. One viral post says they “removed proof of work.” Not true — they picked a different one. Bitcoin.com adds the numbers tonight. The split happened August 8 at block 961632. It stalled, then restarted over the weekend when a pool called Silent Wave mined block 961640, and the chain has put out more than 800 blocks since. Chris Guida is named alongside Dashjr on the minority chain. The new software is due September 1. And the block limit is 300 kilobytes — about 800,000 weight units, well under a third of what Bitcoin allows. No exchange lists the coin. Neither CoinGecko nor CoinMarketCap carries a ticker for it, so there is no price to argue about yet. Saylor’s line from August covers the whole episode: “Consensus is earned, not declared.” We describe the race. We don’t pick a horse — the hashrate already did, 2,016 blocks to none.
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Final BIP110 Monitor numbers: mandatory signaling period 477 closed at 0.00% — 0 of 2,016 blocks. Peak support ever: 2.53% (period 476).
Bitcoin mainnet tip: 963,648. The RDTS chain sat near 961,977 — roughly 1,700 blocks behind and falling.
The minority chain is producing blocks again — recent blocks credited to miners PyBLOCK and 4Ethos, fees near zero.
Dashjr confirmed BLAKE2b as the new proof-of-work algorithm; the fork’s own dashboard (bip110.run) runs a countdown to a September 1 hard fork.
BIP-110 author Dathon Ohm says the change is meant to “fire the miners” and accuses pools of turning Bitcoin into a “toxic data dumping ground.” Dashjr: “There’s just a tiny few bad actors attacking it. PoW change eliminates their threat.”
Saylor, in August: “Consensus is earned, not declared” — roughly 99.85% of hashpower stayed on the dominant chain.
A viral post claims the fork “removed proof of work.” False — it replaces SHA-256 with BLAKE2b. Still proof of work, different machines.
Related: Dashjr exits Ocean — our coverage from this morning.
Sources: CryptoSlate + bip110.run + BIP110 Monitor (final data) + bip110.org + BITCOIN.COM (LATER) · Mon Aug 31 · 6:04 PM ET.
Bitcoin mainnet tip: 963,648. The RDTS chain sat near 961,977 — roughly 1,700 blocks behind and falling.
The minority chain is producing blocks again — recent blocks credited to miners PyBLOCK and 4Ethos, fees near zero.
Dashjr confirmed BLAKE2b as the new proof-of-work algorithm; the fork’s own dashboard (bip110.run) runs a countdown to a September 1 hard fork.
BIP-110 author Dathon Ohm says the change is meant to “fire the miners” and accuses pools of turning Bitcoin into a “toxic data dumping ground.” Dashjr: “There’s just a tiny few bad actors attacking it. PoW change eliminates their threat.”
Saylor, in August: “Consensus is earned, not declared” — roughly 99.85% of hashpower stayed on the dominant chain.
A viral post claims the fork “removed proof of work.” False — it replaces SHA-256 with BLAKE2b. Still proof of work, different machines.
Related: Dashjr exits Ocean — our coverage from this morning.
Sources: CryptoSlate + bip110.run + BIP110 Monitor (final data) + bip110.org + BITCOIN.COM (LATER) · Mon Aug 31 · 6:04 PM ET.
We cover the race. The hashrate picks the horse.
The cap is still twenty-one million.
The cap is still twenty-one million.
CryptoSlate · Aug 10 2026 · Chain status: bip110.run · Signaling data: BIP110 Monitor (final)