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The chain with the new rules is currently ahead, which means the blocks on the old rules were wiped out. In other words, no split currently. Interestingly, the new chain is ahead because AlphaPool is mining on it. This is the exact pool they consider a bad actor and is why this soft fork was rolled put in the first place... ...and this pool won't even be able to spend these block rewards, perhaps ever!

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Aaron van Wirdum 2 weeks ago

So yeah it looks like the new rules are being enforced by a majority of miners, which means that any blocks that don't enforce these rules keep getting wiped out, and there is no chain split. Will be interesting to see if the coinbase freeze gets extended in the upcoming 45 days, given that this was pretty explicitely targeted at "bad actor" AlphaPool... who now helped ensure Luke's soft fork is the majority chain.