The project was promoted by longtime BTC developer Luke Dashjr, who was removed from his position after the failure. BIP-110 was supposed to change BTC consensus rules to address the problem of spam on the network. On August 8–9, nodes running BIP-110 split from the main Bitcoin network and created a separate blockchain with only a small share of its computing power. Initially, the offshoot chain stopped after two blocks. However, it later became active again, reaching four blocks. Dashjr was effectively able to cancel transactions, making the network centralized. Users accused him of controlling the network through Discord.