Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor and Blockstream CEO Adam Back have doubled down on their opposition to BIP-110, a proposed temporary fork to limit non-monetary transactions on the Bitcoin network.<\/p>\n
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal-110 was introduced in December 2025 to stop nonfungible token-like Ordinals inscriptions and other arbitrary data from \u201cspamming\u201d the network and to preserve Bitcoin\u2019s main use as a peer-to-peer cash system.<\/p>\n
While critical of Ordinals activity, Saylor and Back fear a fork could do more harm than good<\/a> to the network\u2019s credibility. \u201cThere are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam,\u201d Saylor said in a post<\/a> to X on Saturday, adding that BIP-110 could invalidate ordinary transactions on the network.<\/p>\n Source: <\/em>Michael Saylor<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n BIP-110 is one of the more notable protocol-level disputes in the Bitcoin development community since the Blocksize Wars between 2015 and 2017, when ecosystem participants debated whether it was worth risking a chain split to raise the block size limit for scalability.\u00a0<\/p>\n BIP-110 was introduced by pseudonymous Bitcoin developer \u201cDathon Ohm\u201d with the support of Ocean protocol founder Luke Dashjr.\u00a0<\/p>\n BIP-110 won’t be activated unless 55% of Bitcoin nodes validating blocks are in support of the proposal across a Bitcoin block \u201cperiod.\u201d<\/p>\n In the last period, period number 475 between block 955,584 and 957,599, only 1% of blocks were BIP-110-supportive.<\/p>\n The dispute comes at a time when Ordinals activity is at near all-time lows, with fewer than 10,000 <\/a>Ordinals inscribed into the Bitcoin blockchain on a daily basis over the last month, down massively from the more than 400,000 seen during its peak in August 2023.<\/p>\n Change in daily Ordinals inscriptions since December 2022. Source: <\/em>Dune Analytics<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Back offered a deeper critique of BIP-110, describing<\/a> it as a \u201cquest to police other people.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Related: <\/strong><\/em>Bitcoin doesn’t need Ethereum-style yield, says Strategy’s Michael Saylor<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n He said Bitcoin\u2019s decentralization should mean \u201cyou can\u2019t impose your views on others,\u201d calling it incompatible with Bitcoin\u2019s cypherpunk ethos of permissionless, censorship-resistant money.<\/p>\n Dashjr and other BIP-110 proponents have called<\/a> Ordinals-driven bloat a “serious threat” to the network, prompting the need for an imminent fix.<\/p>\n They have also argued BIP-110 wouldn’t cause<\/a> a chain split, as many fear, while adding that the BIP-110 fork imposes a temporary one-year limit and thus wouldn\u2019t invalidate fee-paying transactions over the long term.<\/p>\nBIP-110 is a long shot from activating<\/h2>\n
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