CoinDesk reports that Bitcoin has reached block 961,632 as the BIP-110 soft fork attempt begins. The proposal has garnered little support from bitcoin miners, and influential commentators have also opposed it.
A soft fork with scant miner support is unlikely to activate, so the near-term risk for anyone building on Bitcoin is chain uncertainty rather than an actual rule change. If you run nodes or process BTC payments, worth checking whether your infrastructure follows the majority chain and how you'd handle a temporary split. For most app teams this is background noise unless the activation fight escalates into a contentious fork.
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