Bitcoin’s BIP-110 Fork Falls 339 Blocks Behind BTC After Mining Just Two BlocksBitcoin’s controversial BIP-110 fork has fallen approximately 339 blocks behind the main Bitcoin blockchain, after the breakaway network managed to mine only two blocks before effectively grinding to a halt. The BIP-110 chain inherited Bitcoin’s existing mining difficulty but attracted only a tiny fraction of Bitcoin’s computational power. Nodes enforcing the proposal nevertheless proceeded with the user-activated soft-fork rules and rejected the non-signaling Bitcoin chain. Full Bitcoin Difficulty Became a Death TrapThe BIP-110 chain’s biggest technical problem is that mining difficulty does not immediately adjust when hashpower disappears. Bitcoin’s miners were equally free not to follow them.