Bitcoin’s BIP-110 supporters split onto minority chain as main network pulls ahead

BIP-110 is a proposed one-year change that limits non-financial data on Bitcoin and has sparked a debate over how Bitcoin's block space should be used.

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  1. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Split in 2017: Bitcoin Cash forked from Bitcoin in August 2017 due to a disagreement over block size, increasing it from 1MB to 8MB (later 32MB) to improve transaction speed and lower fees, while rejecting SegWit.
  2. Bitcoin SV (BSV) Emergence from BCH: Bitcoin SV (Satoshi's Vision) forked from Bitcoin Cash in November 2018, aiming to restore Bitcoin's original protocol with a focus on massive on-chain scaling, including increasing block sizes up to 2GB.
  3. Bitcoin Gold (BTG) and Other Forks: Bitcoin Gold forked in October 2017 to change Bitcoin's proof-of-work algorithm, aiming to make mining more accessible with GPUs, while Bitcoin Diamond (November 2017) focused on privacy and faster transactions with a 10x supply increase.

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