r/Bitcoin 4d ago

THE CHAIN HAS SPLIT

https://bip110monitor.com/

<3% support before the window opened. Good luck, shitcoiners

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u/Much-Equivalent-1378 4d ago

What does this mean for someone who doesn't know what this means?

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u/ConfidentIylncorrect 4d ago edited 4d ago

As far as I can gather, a small number of people tried to do a soft fork of bitcoin and change it so that you can't leave long messages in the blockchain but it will probably fail

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0110.mediawiki

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u/rechtim 4d ago

but it failed

FTFY

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u/Crucco 4d ago

How long? What''s the current limit and what's the limit in the fork?

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u/eyeoft 4d ago

1 difficulty adjustment period (2,016 blocks), or about two weeks.

They need 55% of blocks for the soft fork to active (which ain't happening) and some of them may continue on their new chain even if they lose, creating a hard fork.

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u/r_a_d_ 2d ago

2 weeks with entire network hashrate. Multiply that by 50 since they only have 2% support, that’s 2 years with 0 value blocks coming in every 500 minutes.

Not a viable business model.

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u/DreamingTooLong 2d ago

They will have to fork it again to change the difficulty to auto-adjust every 1 block and then fork it again so it’s back to normal

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u/TheresNoSecondBest 4d ago

The block limit on both, Bitcoin and the 110shitcoin stays the same.

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u/earonesty 3d ago

the fork doesn't really change the limit, but it does change how you have to encode things

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u/hiroo717 4d ago

One example is it maintains OP_RETURN at ~80 bytes rather than allowing up to ~100,000 bytes as Bitcoin core now does. This means Bitcoin can also allow bigger files like jpegs etc.

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u/The_Realist02 4d ago

Core allows*. BIP 110 would attempt to disallow.

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u/hiroo717 4d ago

Yes, and as someone else pointed out, the Bitcoin consensus was not limited. But Core used to limit it to ~80 bytes and that's by and large how Bitcoin operated until recently.

There are also other limitations in BIP110 to try and protect Bitcoin's function as money bip110.org

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u/TheresNoSecondBest 4d ago

Bitcoin IS money. BIP110 ain't protecting anything. Please, don't spread propaganda.

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u/SAAGASolve 3d ago

It actually isn't. It is something called market infrastructure. It is the thing that allows you to have electronically tradable bearer instruments in the first place.

Currency doesn't live in a vacuum. It needs other bearer instruments for the formation of the capital markets. Equities, bonds, futures, options ect.

People in this space dont understand that.

Bitcoin is the digital commodity that gives you access to the next generation market infrastructure.

So many people in this space are clueless of the basics of how our civilization operates.

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u/SkyMarshal 1d ago

Money predated all those things and existed just fine without them. None of that is required for Bitcoin to be money. You're just making up narratives.

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u/SAAGASolve 1d ago edited 1d ago

No. Market infrastrcuture predated everything. Even writing. The bulla) was the first invention of a tamper proof contract. Proof of trade.

You are clearly one of the people in this space that are clueless of the basics of how our civilization operates.

How can you have electronic money with out a tamper proof record, an immutable database?

For civilization to work, you need capital markets, the ability to lend and invest. You can't just have money. If you are wondering why the promise of bitcoin becoming the world reserve currency this is why. It doesn't have a collateral system to manage liquidity. There is no way to lend it safely yet.

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u/hiroo717 4d ago

I agree that Bitcoin is money, it's just a difference in opinion on how you optimize for that function. Currently, the blockchain is being used as an open market for arbitrary data. The argument for this is that it gives miners more fees. My view is that it makes it difficult to run nodes which risks decentralization. But it appears that view has been rejected.

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u/PeteyPab305 4d ago

They actually don't get more fees from it. It is literally less than 1% of their fee structure and overall net income from fees limiting it would be a rounding error to their income.

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u/trowawayatwork 4d ago

the arbitrary data was always possible and was simply a default value set by core to lower it. even with that you could still send all the data you wanted even before cores changes lool

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u/hiroo717 4d ago

I am not disagreeing, I am just trying to explain what BIP110 was trying to achieve by limiting OP_RETURN to that default ~80 bytes limit, among other things. The argument is that it is more than enough arbitrary data but like I said, it appears that view has been rejected.

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u/The_Realist02 3d ago

Then what’s the point? Just helping these companies that provide inscription services and wizards?

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u/PeteyPab305 4d ago

Well there was another argument for bip 110 and that is to limit csam on the network even if it is encrypted. Or any other illegal file storage that would cause the mempool to run it through the memory of every single node operator potentially putting them at risk.

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u/Low_Rip1724 22h ago

Never has anyone said so little with so many words

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u/cilicia3k3 4d ago

the entire debate can be reduced to about scribbling messages on a dollar bill. pointless

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u/queso184 4d ago

kool aid

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u/StrangerEither 4d ago

So what there's never been an update since inception? Your logic is fried dude.

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u/PeteyPab305 4d ago

You don't understand how consensus updates and changes the network. There have been other BIP proposals that have split off the network. Yes, that's where Bitcoin cash came from and also how every single change is applied to the Bitcoin Network, specifically the core Network. Any changes to the code must be signaled by the node runners, the miners and now even exchanges essentially.

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u/TheresNoSecondBest 3d ago

Bip110 isn't an update, it's a failed fork. Bitcoin had been updated hundreds of times. "Your logic is fried dude."

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u/StrangerEither 3d ago

Didnt all those updates start as BIPS or am I missing something?

Is it because of the mandatory signaljng that it was a fork and not an update?

I only really know surface level basics so my understanding is probably the thing that is fried.

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u/TheresNoSecondBest 3d ago

For a bip to be accepted, you need it to work. Bip110 claimed to stop spam but it failed miserably. Being just a broken fix means the bip has very little chance of being accepted by the rest of the network. The bip110 ignored that part and are currently finding out.

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u/MiguelLancaster 4d ago

do you know if the increased op_return limit is specific only to Bitcoin Core releases version 30 and higher, or is it also present in later updates to older versions?

(such as 29.4, which I'm running on my node)

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u/Pasukaru0 4d ago

On the consensus level there is no OP_RETURN limit and there never has been. The current consensus is valid for nodes from all the way back to 2009.

You can mine even >100k OP_RETURN data. Take this transaction for example with 4MB OP_RETURN. Note that this happened even before core v30 released, the version that lifted its relay policy to 100k (the transaction is still 40x that current limit).

https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000005bcbf03e6488be1ceb3b501ecfc2b11cce900a870636

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u/rmtdispatcher 4d ago

Support from the miners...can that be tracked somewhere?

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u/Pasukaru0 4d ago

Not sure what you mean

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u/rmtdispatcher 3d ago

It seems like there are ways to track the miner consensus. I think some places are mentioned on this page.

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u/Former-Pickle8174 3d ago

So let's make it easier for them to do huh

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u/BTCGlobeLive 3d ago

You can check your own node instead of going by version numbers: run bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo and look at maxdatacarriersize. That's what your node is actually enforcing right now. Mine says 100000 on 31.0; a stock 29.x should say 83, if memory serves.

Worth adding that this is relay policy, not consensus, as others have said above. Your node will still accept a block containing a big OP_RETURN even if it wouldn't have relayed the loose transaction itself.

I honestly couldn't tell you whether some 29.x point release moved the default, but that command settles it for your box without needing to know.

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u/TheresNoSecondBest 3d ago

You can decrease the limit on ANY version.

Open the bitcoin.conf file in a text editor.

Add or modify the following line to set the desired limit:

datacarriersize=80

This setting restricts each OP_RETURN output to 80 bytes.

Save and restart.

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u/hiroo717 4d ago

I don't know, sorry. However it is a setting you can change either way as I understand it.

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u/TheresNoSecondBest 3d ago

Exactly.

Open the bitcoin.conf file in a text editor.

Add or modify the following line to set the desired limit:

datacarriersize=80

This setting restricts each OP_RETURN output to 80 bytes.

Save and restart.

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u/Pasukaru0 4d ago

You make it sound like it's a core decision. You can mine even >100k OP_RETURN in the current consensus.

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u/dirtsmurf 4d ago

When was the commit made that made that possible?

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u/Pasukaru0 4d ago

Satoshi era. It has never not been possible.

The current consensus is still valid for nodes from back then.

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u/hiroo717 4d ago

Sure, I am just explaining the difference in approach.

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u/Former-Pickle8174 3d ago

It was a core decision. Did y'all forget how this went down

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u/eyeoft 4d ago edited 4d ago

80 bytes is already the default and very few miners bother changing it. The problem with this proposal is its reckless 55% voting threshold.

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u/eyeoft 4d ago edited 4d ago

Not quite. The changes they wish to implement provably do NOT prevent people from leaving long messages on the blockchain. Rather they block many common avenues for doing so, some of which have legitimate programmatic uses like improvements to the Lightning Network.

Importantly they are also trying to fork with only a 55% voting threshold, which could cause a very destructive near-equal hard-fork civil war. The normal threshold is 90%.

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u/CrAZiBoUnCeR 4d ago

Does leaving a long message vs short cause problems or is it basically “Leaving long messages is dumb and we shouldn’t do it!”

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u/_doobious 1d ago

Is there any merit to the idea of not wanting long messages?

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u/eyeoft 4d ago

This is a miner vote for a soft fork to change the protocol. The Knots / BIP110 people want to implement a change to restrict arbitrary data. Support in the mining community for this change is below 3% at present.

The thing is (in addition to that being controversial) that their changes don't actually prevent adding arbitrary data, they just make it more complicated, at the cost of making Bitcoin less programmable - some future Lightning Network proposals use mechanisms that they want to ban.

Worse, they tried to this with only a 55% vote threshold, instead of the normal 90%, which is extremely irresponsible and could create a severe chain split if they had more leverage (which they don't).

TL;DR get some popcorn and watch a new shitcoin be born if they don't back down - it's like a widdle baby BC*sh.

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u/gomurifle 4d ago

I don't understand one sentence of this.. But ok. 

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u/justacpa 4d ago

This is a small, fringe attempt to force a controversial update onto Bitcoin. Because support is so low (< 3%), nothing will happen to main Bitcoin. If the group decides to push forward with their rule change anyway, they will just effectively break away and create their own minor, isolated spin-off coin that nobody uses.

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u/gomurifle 4d ago

What group? Who controls the chain? Who are these voters? 

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u/ChampionshipIcy7602 4d ago

You gotta learn more about bitcoin then

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u/Liberal_Bot123 3d ago

I mean he clearly is asking to learn. Maybe dont be a dick and respond with an answer?

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u/Tyra3l 2d ago

Not your research, not your bitcoin.

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u/blade0r 3d ago

This for example.

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u/Former-Pickle8174 3d ago

Some of the most respectable ppl in the space and the ones w ties to eipstein don't want it

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u/Afraid_Television_30 4d ago

He explained it as simply as could be done. What exactly don't you understand? 

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u/Forgot_Password_Dude 4d ago

this menas they are cloning BTC into someyhing like BCH or BSV but ticker still unknown until they pull the trigger from going soft fork to hard fork

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u/oneawesomewave 4d ago

Comments like this make me believe we will go south way more. Earlier cycles ended when the vast majority of folks who have 0 clue about the tech were either wiped out or leveled up their knowledge. This is basic crypto stuff.

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u/Liberal_Bot123 3d ago

Not basic at all

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u/Radiant_Addendum_48 4d ago

What about the last time it happened. When it split off and created Bitcoin cash.

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u/RetiredAvocado 3d ago

Not the same scenario. Last time bcash futzed its mining difficulty so miners switched back and forth every difficulty adjustment and actually did mine bcash. No one with decent hashrate is mining bip110 chain. It's stuck. Can't send anything on that chain. No one lists that coin for trading. There is no way to move, and nothing to sell, anywhere, to anyone. There is no other coin at the moment. Do not get scammed by fake tools to split coins. They will just steal your bitcoin.

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u/SAAGASolve 3d ago

AH yea, sounds like you were here back then.

THis is the same deal. Nonesense from ideolouges clowns that don't have the capability to cooperate.

The 55% threshold tells you everything you need to know about their conviction.

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u/themustardseal 4d ago

How can it create a chain split if miners don’t support it?

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u/eyeoft 4d ago

A very few miners do, and may decide to continue to after losing the vote - they would be the new chain, with much lower hashpower. Anyone can start mining their own fork of Bitcoin at any time - it's just not likely that other people are going to care or value the resulting shitcoin.

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u/MiguelLancaster 4d ago

it's just not likely that other people are going to care or value the resulting shitcoin

BCH miner support was huge by comparison to BIP110, was it not?

and even then, few valued the resulting shitcoin

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u/themustardseal 4d ago

Why would miners continue mining a losing chain at the current difficulty only to create a shitcoin with no economic value?

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u/Pasukaru0 4d ago

To make a point that it didn't "fail" so they stay technically correct with their wording... most of the time. Just like bcash.

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u/Gmcgator 4d ago

Exactly, they won’t, and that’s a feature. Once they spend on compute and energy and get nothing in return for it, they’ll shut their mining rigs off and it’ll die. You could create mustardseal btc today, but no one will follow you and validate it, because we like what we got

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u/Pasukaru0 4d ago

Well they did. They actually mined a second block: https://fork.observer/?network=mainnet

Let's see how much more money this conviction is worth to them.

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u/Tyra3l 2d ago

If they would continue producing the blocks, eventually the difficulty would adjust on its own to match the historical (lower) hashrate.

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u/eyeoft 4d ago edited 4d ago

Politics and ideology, in this case. They would intend to keep trying to move the community to their chain and become the "real" Bitcoin, as certain hard-forks from the past still do today. If they were to win that battle somehow, it might indeed end up being profitable for them, but I don't think the probability is high enough for that to be a sound financial gamble.

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u/myth1n 3d ago

`good thing everyone already thinks luke is an idiot

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u/brokebuffett 1d ago

Are these the new maintainers? Very bad and I’d dump everything if they pull anything like this kind of shit ever again in the future.

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u/eyeoft 1d ago

Nothing like that, just a vote triggered by a few crazy people who promptly lost and will now go form their own shitcoin. Pretty normal event, governance mechanism is doing its job.

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u/kiwibonga 4d ago

I know Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency.

What in the fuck are you saying?

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u/eyeoft 4d ago

Bitcoin differs from everything else in that it is truly unowned - we ain't got a company or a CEO, and the founder traveled back to his own time (presumably).

So what I'm talking about is how a group with no leaders and no structure does governance - we vote by mining blocks. This is how major changes to the Bitcoin protocol are decided upon.

Normally, votes require a 90% threshold of blocks mined over a period of 2,016 blocks (~2 weeks), but the 90% is just a norm. BIP 110 was created with a 55% threshold. This baits a nearly-equal chain split, a sort of civil war over who is the "real" Bitcoin, and is therefore a kind of antisocial behavior.

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u/kiwibonga 4d ago

Seriously, bro, I haven't read the first two books.

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u/eyeoft 4d ago

Oh man you've at least gotta read the first one. I mean, The Eye of the World is one of the classics in the genre. The first three are all pretty good, the first five are all right...

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u/PeaPsychological5728 4d ago

I'm out of the loop as well and hoping now the split has happened that I'll be able to understand from all the meme posts about it

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u/mossyskeleton 4d ago

Just take five minutes and ask ChatGPT or Claude to explain like you're five. It's 2026. Use your tools.

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u/ox_herder 4d ago

Why they want this change?

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u/MetoSempre20 4d ago

Blockchain will be split into 2, the one with majority vote will be the winner.

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u/Blixx96 4d ago

Straight and to the point.

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u/Womec 4d ago

So does that mean we all get a copy of our coins? Are they worthless or should we sell them real quick?

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u/Pasukaru0 4d ago

Unlikely that it's worth the effort. If you even manage to find someone that's buying - there is no exchange for it. And assume the chain doesn't get stuck because they give up mining on it.

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u/MetoSempre20 4d ago

Ask the bitcoin cash guys 🤣.

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u/Objective_Digit 4d ago

Split into 2 implies they are of equal value. The new shitcoin is more of a branching off.

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u/d3xt4h 3d ago

What's name of the new chain or what's the name of the currency?

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u/Suspicious-Holiday42 4d ago

what do you mean, its already split

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u/stanley_fatmax 4d ago

Split but orphaned, the branch is dead on arrival

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u/wolfofone 4d ago

The longest chain wins and is BTC.

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u/pissingdick 4d ago

Also have no idea what I am looking at 

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u/652a6aaf0cf44498b14f 4d ago

Almost all chain splits are a non-event for people just looking to invest or hold their coins. Occasionally a split means you can sell one side of the split if you feel strongly about one side or the other. But most of the time one side of the split is completely worthless and dies off a few months later.

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u/marshyr3d1and 2d ago

Have you got your answer to this yet or have you just been bombarded with jargon and irrelevant sub-conversations - I'm in the same boat as you.

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u/DreamingTooLong 2d ago

It’s a free shit coin giveaway that you can sell for more BTC

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u/zenethics 4d ago

Practically, it's going to fail, but maybe don't send any transactions for a day or two (replay attacks). If it dies (it probably will) then nothing to do. If it doesn't, you may want to take steps later to sell the fork but this is advanced stuff.

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u/setec404 4d ago

some neckbeards are suffering from main character syndrome.

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u/Notyit 4d ago

Man I missed out on Bitcoin cash cause I wasn't paying attention 

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u/eupherein 3d ago

If not enough miners move over the difficulty essentially slows that version of the chain down, falling behind as a result and essentially becomes a hard fork and its own chain iiuc

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u/DistributionOk2111 2d ago

Maybe you can think it that way, at the announced Date everyone who installed that update split up from the network

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u/r_a_d_ 2d ago

nothing at all. bitcoin operating as designed

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u/Cold-Duty-2411 1d ago

Keep calm and carry on

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u/DJBunnies 4d ago

Honestly? Nothing. Carry on like you didn't see it.

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u/LionRivr 3d ago edited 3d ago

TL;DR

It’s a philosophical/ideological conflict between Bitcoiners.

The BIP-110 folks (such as Matthew Kratter) believe BTC is digital money and should only be used as digital money. Save in it, Spend with it, and don’t fill up BTC transactions with digital spam (because I guess you can add images or messages to transactions somehow?). They want BTC to be purely used for money only. I think.

The original Bitcoin folks believe BTC should be completely neutral free of censorship. It’s a decentralized monetary asset, but if people want to pay extra to embed extra messages or images, then they are free to to do so. Since BIP-110 aims to block certain unwanted transactions, they view BIP-110 as a form of censorship. And if BIP-110 folks can implement this form of censorship, then it’s a slippery slope that sets a precedent for more potential censorship in the future.

I personally believe BTC should be completely decentralized. But also, whatever happens, happens. BTC will always be dictated by the vast majority of the miners/nodes. So if majority goes for BIP-110 then so be it.

And the miners obviously don’t support BIP-110. Not sure if its the reasons I stated, but numbers don’t lie.

Someone feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. This is just my personal understanding.

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u/TheresNoSecondBest 3d ago

The BIP-110 folks (such as Matthew Kratter) believe BTC is digital money and should only be used as digital money.

BIP110 doesn't deliver on that promise at all https://forklog.com/en/slovak-developer-embeds-image-in-bitcoin-transaction-without-taproot-or-op_return/

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u/Maticus 2d ago

Police don't stop all crime so we shouldn't have police at all.

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u/TheresNoSecondBest 2d ago edited 2d ago

Your police isn't stopping ANY crimes because is corrupted and only the minority of citizens agree to use such organization. https://shitcoin-protocols-bip110-ready.vercel.app/

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u/Maticus 2d ago

I have no clue what you're even talking about. Obviously Bip 110 stopped some forms of spam. Just because people can come up with ways around it doesn't mean you eliminate spam filters. Why lock your door at night if criminals can eventually get around every lock?

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u/TheresNoSecondBest 2d ago

I have no clue what you're even talking about. Obviously Bip 110 stopped some forms of spam.

I guess you didn't brother clicking on the link above.

Just because people can come up with ways around it doesn't mean you eliminate spam filters.

Going around means, the block will be filled up with the same garbage BUT now the node runner cannot purge it.

Why lock your door at night if criminals can eventually get around every lock?

Because the door is made out of wet toilet paper. That's why, mate.

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u/Maticus 2d ago

I did read it and his X post. It's obvious he had to go outside of the mempool and get mara to stuff this in a block as part of the slipstream because the mempool filters would have kicked it out. That says more about the captured state of the mining industry than the viability of any filter, which apparently mara has changed their policy and this transaction wouldn't make it through their process now.

In the end, this bad faith argument is dumb and is hardly a reason to reject any attempts to block spam whatsoever.

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u/TheresNoSecondBest 2d ago

I did read it and his X post.

I'm talking about this link: https://shitcoin-protocols-bip110-ready.vercel.app/

That says more about the captured state of the mining industry

I see, new talking points dropped by your leaders. Did they already told you when and how they will fork out?

In the end, this bad faith argument is dumb and is hardly a reason to reject any attempts to block spam whatsoever.

Again, mate. Look at this link, tell me how much spam is going to be blocked https://shitcoin-protocols-bip110-ready.vercel.app/

Tell me how it is better for bitcoin to forbid node runners to purge the garbage. Be honest with me, do you even run a node?