Michael Saylor warns against BIP-110: Is Bitcoin’s utility truly evolving?
Bitcoin’s push for greater utility through BIP-110 faces growing market criticism.
Bitcoin’s push for greater utility through BIP-110 faces growing market criticism.
Adam Back mocks BIP-110 backers and predicts the Bitcoin fork stalls within three weeks of mandatory signaling.

Bitcoin Magazine Ocean Mining VP Jason Hughes: BIP-110 on Track to Fail as Miner Signaling Stays Below 1% Ocean Mining’s VP of Development and Engineering Jason Hughes argues BIP-110 lacks measurable consensus, with node signaling at 7-15% and hashrate support under 1% ahead of the critical block 961632 window. This post Ocean Mining VP Jason Hughes: BIP-110 on Track to Fail as Miner Signaling Stays Below 1% first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Jason Hughes .

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Mining Giant Foundry Asks Miners To Vote on BIP-110 Soft Fork Foundry Digital said it will allow clients who use its Bitcoin mining pool to vote on BIP-110. This post Bitcoin Mining Giant Foundry Asks Miners To Vote on BIP-110 Soft Fork first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Mathew Di Salvo .

The BIP-110 debate highlights ongoing tensions in Bitcoin's governance, potentially impacting miner revenue and future consensus changes.

A proposal to restrict non-financial data on Bitcoin has split prominent developers, miners, and industry leaders ahead of a key activation deadline, reopening one of the network's biggest governance debates since the Blocksize Wars.

Michael Saylor’s description of BIP‑110 as dangerous has deepened rifts within the Bitcoin community, leading Arch co‑founder Himanshu Sahay to urge a measured, fact‑based review of the proposal. A Fault Line in Bitcoin Philosophy Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor’s argument pushing back against BIP-110 has stepped directly into one of the most polarizing philosophical fault […]

Bitcoin Magazine The Bitcoin Softfork That Tried to Police “Junk Data” — And Why It’s Already Failing Bitcoin’s real power is that anyone willing to pay fees can write to the ledger. BIP-110’s backers want to change that for data-heavy transactions. The backlash reveals what’s truly at stake. This post The Bitcoin Softfork That Tried to Police “Junk Data” — And Why It’s Already Failing first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Brandon Black .

BIP-110's failure underscores Bitcoin's robust resistance to change, highlighting the challenges of achieving consensus in decentralized governance.


Saylor stressed that the real danger of this action is invalidating currently valid transactions, even as they pay mining fees. He has stressed that spam is not currently a problem for the Bitcoin network. Michael Saylor Labels BIP-110 As ‘Dangerous’ As the activation of Bitcoin Improvement Proposal-110 (BIP-110), a so-called anti-spam fork for Bitcoin, looms, […]
Why are industry experts opposing Bitcoin BIP 110, which is intended to combat network spam?
Bitcoin titans Michael Saylor and Adam Back have united in fierce opposition against the highly controversial Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 (BIP 110).

The ongoing debate comes despite a broad downturn in Ordinals transaction activity over the last two years.

Bitcoin has two forks on the calendar for 2026. Developer Paul Sztorc plans a deliberate hard fork called eCash, activating at block height 964,000, expected around August 21. Separately, a contested soft fork proposal called BIP-110 carries the chance of splitting the chain by accident during its August signaling window. Both events raise the same […]
David Bailey revived Luke Dashjr's 2014 Gentoo blacklisting row to challenge his BIP-110 push over Bitcoin's future.

This week, Strategy founder and bitcoin bull Michael Saylor turned to X to argue that Bitcoin has “no spam problem,” pointing to persistently low network fees as evidence for his position. Saylor’s remarks arrive amid an increasingly heated debate within the Bitcoin community over BIP-110, a proposed soft fork designed to limit non-monetary data recorded […]

BIP-110 has become a symbolic battle over Bitcoin's future direction, from censorship resistance to network governance.

Bitcoin is heading toward two separate fork events in August 2026, and knowing the difference between them is the first step to understanding what’s actually at stake. One is a proposed soft fork called BIP-110. The other is a planned hard fork called eCash, backed by Drivechain architect Paul Sztorc. They share a somewhat similar […]

Luke Dashjr says BIP-110 is too late to cancel as Bitcoin users debate data limits, Ordinals, Runes and protocol caution.