The breakaway chain inherited bitcoin’s mining difficulty with only a tiny share of hashpower, leaving blocks hours apart while both chains still accept the same transactions. A minority chain created by supporters of Bitcoin’s BIP-110 proposal has effectively stalled, producing only two blocks in roughly eight hours while the main bitcoin chain has advanced by 48 blocks. BIP-110 would temporarily ban storing non-financial data such as images and text in bitcoin transactions, a move backers say…
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