The brilliance of “set in stone”

Homepage > News > Editorial > The brilliance of “set in stone” The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of CoinGeek. When Bitcoin stopped changing What a settled protocol enables The architects of stable foundations Standards without the politics Four blocks. That is the lifetime output of the chain that was going to save BTC)from spam. BIP110 opened its mandatory signaling window at block 961,632 on August 8, 2026, with miner support under 3%, and the Knots nodes enforcing it rejected the first non-signaling block and walked off to find their destiny… Casa co-founder Jameson Lopp’s post-mortem found who was behind it: “Turns out there was only one tiny entity that called themselves ‘Roughnecks’ who mined the entirety of the 4 blocks on the BIP-110 fork.” Two blocks on the Saturday, two more the next day, and then nothing. bip110.org still insists the activation went off “successfully” and that “Bitcoin is alive albeit low hash-powered after SHA256d mining pools quit the network.” Four blocks! Meanwhile, on BSV blockchain, the loudest standards conversation is about a wallet interface or novel token protocols b...