Bitcoin's mandatory signaling window for the proposed BIP-110 soft fork opened today, with the decisive block 961,632 due within hours. Miner support for the proposal sits at just 2.6%. A cluster of monitoring dashboards now lets anyone watch in real time whether the network splits.
Signaling stalls at 2.6%
Bitcoin's clock is ticking toward block 961,632, the point where mandatory signaling for BIP-110 begins. Signaling sits at just 2.6% at press time.
Less than 50 blocks are left before the deadline arrives. Mandatory signaling begins at 9 a.m. EDT on Saturday.
BIP-110 would restrict how much non-financial data, such as images or files, users can embed in the blockchain. Supporters argue the restriction would curb what they call spam that consumes block space and steer the protocol back toward moving money. If miners produce blocks that BIP-110 rejects once block 961,632 arrives, the chain could split, leaving Bitcoin Core nodes accepting blocks that RDTS-enforcing Knots nodes refuse to follow.
Trackers built for the split
Fork.observer connects to 50+ nodes running Bitcoin Core, Knots, BIP-110, btcd, floresta, electrum and mempool-space software, according to the site's maintainer. It also shows which chain 20+ mining pools are building on.
BIP110.org/monitor, the proposal's own dashboard, displays the current difficulty period, signaling percentage and a visual grid of recent blocks. It offers a public window into whether miners are rallying behind the proposal as the deadline nears.
Several other sites — Forkwatch.tv, Mempool.kilombino.com, Forkmonitor.info, Miningpool.observer and Wickedsmartbitcoin.com/bip110_signaling — track the same mining pool signaling and flag blocks or transactions that would violate BIP-110's proposed data limits. Miningpool.observer compares each mined block against the high-fee template a Bitcoin Core node would build, exposing which transactions pools include or exclude.
Saylor calls the outcome settled
Strategy founder Michael Saylor, a vocal BIP-110 critic, wrote on X hours before mandatory signaling began: "With only 2.6% miner signaling, BIP-110 has failed to earn broad miner support." Saylor added that BIP-110's nodes would reject non-signaling blocks once block 961,632 arrives, so the proposal would stall or fork into irrelevance while Bitcoin continues normally.
Source: Bitcoin.com
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