Controversial Bitcoin Fork BIP-110 Mines Two Blocks Before Stalling

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A controversial Bitcoin fork known as BIP-110 managed to mine only two blocks before its activity came to a halt. The breakaway chain inherited Bitcoin's full mining difficulty despite having access to just a small fraction of the network's total hashpower. This mismatch caused blocks to be produced hours apart rather than at the standard ten-minute interval. During this period, both the original Bitcoin chain and the fork continued to accept the same transactions simultaneously.

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