Bitcoin proposal BIP‑110 faces sharp opposition from Michael Saylor and Adam Back

Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 (BIP‑110) is a temporary soft‑fork designed to limit non‑financial data such as Ordinals and BRC‑20 token inscriptions on the blockchain for one year. The proposal requires 55 % signaling by validating nodes; recent signaling periods have shown only about 1 % support and miner backing remains below 1 %. An activation window is set to open in early August 2026, with a mandatory lock‑in later that month.

Strategy’s executive chairman Michael Saylor and Blockstream CEO Adam Back have publicly rejected BIP‑110. Saylor warned that the change would set a “dangerous precedent” by allowing the network to invalidate fee‑paying transactions, saying “there are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam.” Back argued that imposing transaction filters contradicts Bitcoin’s decentralised, permission‑less ethos, describing the proposal as a “quest to police other people.” Both cautioned that pushing the fork without broad consensus could split the network.

Proponents of BIP‑110 claim that Ordinals‑related data bloat inflates block size and raises fees, but recent on‑chain data show Ordinals activity has fallen to under 10,000 daily inscriptions, far below its 400,000‑plus peak in August 2023. With minimal miner and node support, the proposal is unlikely to become a main‑net change and may only result in a small, separate chain if enforced.