Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fork fight gives exchanges an August deadline before miners signal support
Farside Investors has added live BIP-110 signaling alerts, turning Bitcoin’s arbitrary-data dispute into an operational deadline for exchanges, wallets, miners, pools, and node operators ahead of an August mandatory-signaling window. Current miner support is very low: BGeometrics shows 38 signaling blocks out of 9,066 since May 1, or 0.42%, and 8 of 1,000 blocks in the latest seven-day window, or 0.8%. Miner lock-in requires 1,109 of 2,016 blocks, so activation via miner threshold remains remote. BIP-110 includes a mandatory-signaling period where non-signaling blocks are invalid for enforcing nodes, followed by activation at a later height if lock-in occurs. The alert feed makes each new signal publicly trackable against both the 55% threshold and the calendar. The practical question for infrastructure operators is whether to prepare now or wait for stronger support, especially since a major pool could quickly change the outlook.
