Bitcoin Knots Fork Hits First Cheap-Node Problem After 45-Day Rule Activation

• —The fork split from the main network in August and switched its mining algorithm to BLAKE2b on September 1
• —The soft fork locks newly mined coins for roughly 45 days instead of the usual 100 blocks
• —A Raspberry Pi node entered initial block download and would not catch up before the window closed
• —The fork has drawn almost no hashrate and no major exchange listing