Key Takeaways Roughnecks stopped BIP-110 mining Aug. 9 after producing the fork’s only 2 blocks. Ocean hashrate fell from about 36 EH/s to 1.25 EH/s as the BIP-110 chain stalled. BIP-110 now needs new hashrate or another strategy after Roughnecks told miners to halt. Roughnecks Pulls the Plug as the Fork Freezes The group announced the decision shortly before 4 a.m. UTC on Aug. 9, following a team meeting around 3:40 a.m. Roughnecks stressed that the move was difficult but insisted it did not view the retreat as a defeat for BIP-110, instead calling it an “escalation to the next …

