Bitcoin miner rejects BIP-110 despite mining through a pool that supported it
Simple Mining, a bitcoin mining operator, rejected the BIP-110 proposal despite being part of a mining pool that supported it. By using the DATUM protocol, the miner maintained individual control over block production, highlighting a decentralized approach to network governance.
Why it matters
This event illustrates the technical and political complexities of decentralized governance in blockchain networks and the power dynamics between mining pools and individual operators.
Simple Mining said it produced block 961,634 on the main chain, two blocks past the point where BIP-110 supporters broke away.
"Hashrate is a vote you cannot fake, and we decided the proposal wasn't worth following," Simple Mining wrote on X.
We mined block 961,634 using Ocean's DATUM protocol. The block didn't signal support for BIP-110. Support peaked at 2.6% while the proposal needed 55%. Hashrate is a vote you cannot fake, and we decided the proposal wasn't worth following. Ocean's DATUM protocol gave us the… https://t.co/YVUeHr2oJ4 pic.twitter.com/wYYq20dsam
The choice is notable because Ocean, the pool it mines with, had switched miners to signal for BIP-110 by default in July and accounted for nearly all of the proposal's small amount of mining support before the split.
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