Following the failure of BIP-110, advocates declare Bitcoin captured by miners while critics argue the protocol worked exactly as designed.

Ocean, a bitcoin mining pool, had been backing BIP-110 by default. Simple Mining, a company that runs mining machines through Ocean, used software from the pool that lets…

A controversial proposal — supported by the Knots community — aimed at clearing up spam on the Bitcoin network, attempted to fork on Saturday. It failed spectacularly, picking up…