After two years of bitter bickering, Bitcoin has blown past the BIP-110 signaling line at block 961632, and reality is now doing the talking as $BTC blocks keep stacking. BIP-110 supporters appear stunned by the outcome, while the Bitcoin Knots creator Luke Dashjr has issued a notice to everyone.
“PSA: If you haven’t upgraded to Bitcoin Knots 29.3.knots20260508 (or 29.4) yet, you are now vulnerable to double-spending attacks aided by [Foundry and Antpool],” Dashjr wrote on the social media platform X. In bold lettering, he also said, “Upgrade ASAP to avoid accepting counterfeit bitcoins.”
Dathon Ohm, the anonymous architect behind BIP-110, also took to X and further insisted:
“The Bitcoin network is currently under attack from hostile miners.”
Roughnecks Drills Again as Bitcoin’s Main Chain Pulls Away
As Bitcoin.com News previously reported, BIP-110-supporting mining outfit Roughnecks went head-to-head with Antpool for block 961632. Antpool won the race on the dominant Bitcoin chain, while Roughnecks’ competing 961632 block remained stranded on the BIP-110 version. Since then, Roughnecks has managed to grind out another block on the minority chain at height 961633.
Adding another wrinkle to an already chaotic block, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty also adjusted at height 961632, climbing to 127.48 trillion just as the blockchain split into competing versions. That difficulty jump makes life especially brutal for the BIP-110 minority chain.
Bitcoin’s difficulty does not magically fall when most miners disappear, meaning Roughnecks and its allies are still trying to solve blocks against the same 127.48 trillion difficulty target with only a sliver of the main chain’s computing power. Unless considerably more hashrate joins the breakaway chain, blocks could crawl in at painfully slow intervals, leaving BIP-110 effectively stuck waiting for enough blocks to reach its next difficulty adjustment.
