David Schwartz, the Ripple CTO emeritus, argued on August 31 that supporters of Bitcoin\u2019s BIP-110 fork crossed from governance into an attack after rejecting the soft-fork result and continuing on a separate proof-of-work chain.<\/p>\n
His exchange with fork supporter loogart captures the dispute: whether losing a consensus fight justifies creating a new Bitcoin chain, or whether that move itself amounts to attacking the network.<\/p>\n
The account loogart opened<\/a> the exchange by describing the sequence from the group\u2019s perspective: it objected to the direction Bitcoin Core was taking, was told to fork, forked with a different proof-of-work algorithm, and is now building a separate chain, all while still being called an attacker.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re not \u2018still\u2019 attacking,\u201d Schwartz wrote in response to loogart\u2019s take. \u201cYou switched from participating in governance to attacking when you refused to accept that you lost.\u201d<\/p>\n Loogart replied that their group had accepted defeat and continued their version of Bitcoin elsewhere. They argued that open dialogue, a soft fork, and eventually a hard fork cannot amount to an attack because no one was compelled to follow, writing, \u201cNobody was forced to follow us.\u201d<\/p>\n However, Schwartz rejected that framing, stating<\/a> that inventing language that makes disagreement impossible to reason through moves the dispute beyond a good-faith disagreement and into what he called attacks and lunacy.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not arguing that you are incapable of pretending you have good faith disagreement over governance,\u201d the XRP Ledger architect added. \u201cI\u2019m arguing that there\u2019s lots of evidence that when you do so, you are pretending.\u201d<\/p>\n The chain he referenced went live<\/a> through a flag-day hard fork at block 961,640, replacing SHA256d with BLAKE2b as the mining algorithm. The update also introduced a new 164-byte block header and temporary rules capping block size at roughly 300 kilobytes until September 2027.<\/p>\n Bitcoin Knots developer Luke Dashjr defended<\/a> the switch on August 30, arguing that BLAKE2b carries none of SHA256d\u2019s known weaknesses, such as ASICBoost, and that the redesigned header closes a block-withholding loophole that previously relied on miner monitoring to catch.<\/p>\n As CryptoPotato<\/em> reported previously, the BIP-110 chain split from Bitcoin\u2019s main chain at block 961,632 after failing<\/a> to draw enough miner support.<\/p>\n The backing pool, Roughnecks, produced<\/a> only two blocks before the branch stalled while the main chain kept its normal pace, and the gap between them grew to several hundred blocks within weeks. Dashjr was separately removed as an editor of Bitcoin\u2019s improvement proposal repository over what was described as a conflict of interest in his handling of BIP-110.<\/p>\n The dispute traces back to Bitcoin Core dropping<\/a> its old limit on OP_RETURN data, which let more non-monetary content, including Ordinals and Runes, fill blocks that BIP-110 supporters wanted reserved for payments.<\/p>\n That disagreement has since split Bitcoin\u2019s online community into camps, exemplified by how one X user, Robin Seyr, called BLAKE2b hostile in the same way Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin SV (BSV) were viewed, while another poster, Luke Mikic, described BIP-110 as an attempt to fix bugs introduced by Taproot rather than an attack on Bitcoin at all.<\/p>\n The post Ripple CTO Emeritus: BIP-110 Vote Loss Doesn\u2019t Justify New Chain<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David Schwartz, the Ripple CTO emeritus, argued on August 31 that supporters of Bitcoin\u2019s BIP-110 fork crossed from governance into an attack after rejecting the soft-fork result and continuing on a separate proof-of-work chain. His exchange with fork supporter loogart captures the dispute: whether losing a consensus fight justifies creating a new Bitcoin chain, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A Fork That Struggled Before It Split Again<\/h2>\n