Bitcoin Miners Demand Ousting of OCEAN Leadership After BIP-110 Fork Disaster

Bitcoin mining pool OCEAN faces an escalating crisis after a controversial admission.The pool redirected some users’ hashrate to the failed BIP-110 minority chain without clear consent. The incident lasted roughly 18 hours.

During that time, affected miners believed they were using non-BIP-110 Stratum templates. Instead, their hardware mined blocks on a separate fork.

Bitcoin Hashrate Crisis at OCEAN The controversy follows weeks of debate over BIP-110, a proposed Bitcoin protocol change targeting certain types of non-monetary data.

BeInCrypto previously reported on the proposal’s disputed activation process and the security concerns surrounding the Coldcard incident in its BIP-110 activation update.