- Michael Saylor wrote on X that “there are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam” and argued the proposal turns a spam dispute into a consensus change.
- Blockstream CEO Adam Back described the proposal as a “quest to police other people” and said it conflicts with Bitcoin’s permissionless design.
- BIP-110 would cap data-carrying transaction fields for about one year and activate at 55 per cent block signalling; trackers put current support at around 1 per cent or lower.
Michael Saylor and Blockstream chief executive Adam Back came out against BIP-110 this weekend, opposing a proposed temporary soft fork that would restrict Ordinals inscriptions and other data-heavy transactions on Bitcoin (BTC) for about one year.
Saylor, Strategy’s executive chairman, wrote on X that “there are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam.” He argued the proposal turns a dispute over network spam into a consensus change that would invalidate some currently valid, fee-paying transactions, and called that precedent dangerous for the network.
Back said the proposal amounts to a “quest to police other people.” The Blockstream CEO argued that policing transactions other users choose to send conflicts with Bitcoin’s decentralised and permissionless design, and warned that supporters who enforce new rules without broad agreement could end up on a separate chain.
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What BIP-110 Would Do
BIP-110, titled Reduced Data Temporary Softfork, was introduced in December 2025 by a pseudonymous developer writing as Dathon Ohm.
The proposal would temporarily tighten consensus rules for roughly one year, limiting new script outputs to 34 bytes, capping witness data items at 256 bytes and restricting several Taproot features used to embed images and text on-chain. Coins created before activation would be exempt from the new rules.
Activation uses a modified deployment with a 55 per cent block-signalling threshold, well below the 95 per cent standard used for previous soft forks, inside a window that runs to September 1, 2026. Signalling has stayed at around 1 per cent of blocks or lower, according to activation trackers, and no major mining pool has backed the proposal.
The clash has divided developers over how to preserve the network’s long-term integrity, and commentators have compared it to the Blocksize Wars, Bitcoin’s earlier fight over block capacity.
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