BIP-110, this Bitcoin fork drama, seems to have basically failed at this point. Miners supporting BIP-110, who didn’t agree with the main chain rules, decided to fork off on their own. Roughnecks managed to mine two blocks on the new chain at one point but soon stopped producing blocks and announced a pause in mining. The reason is simple: the hash power supporting it is extremely small, nowhere near enough to sustain a competitive new chain. So this isn’t a case of “Bitcoin’s mainnet being split.” Quite the opposite, the BTC main chain has been running normally the entire time. BIP-110 was just a minority choosing to break away, only to find that almost no one was willing to follow. This incident actually highlights one of Bitcoin’s most straightforward and brutal aspects of consensus: you can propose new rules, and you can fork off on your own, but ultimately miners, nodes, and the market will vote with real money. For now, in this stress test, the BTC main chain has won.