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A soft fork only got 2.53% miner support. Swapping the entire mining algorithm didn't move that number either — proof that no matter how radical the fork's technical approach, it can't manufacture consensus the market never had to begin with.
Hiroshi Endo
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September 18, 2026
The BLAKE2b fork, led by Bitcoin Knots developer Luke Dashjr, formally split away from the Bitcoin mainchain at Block height 961,632 on August 8, 2026, and completed the actual mining algorithm switch at block 961,640 on August 30 — replacing SHA-256d, the algorithm Bitcoin has run on for years, with BLAKE2b. This event is worth recording not because of whether it succeeded (the new chain currently has almost no exchange support and near-zero trading volume), but because it demonstrates the...