On Sunday, Executive Chairman of Strategy Michael Saylor detailed on social media his “110 reasons” why a proposed temporary fork to limit non-monetary transactions on the Bitcoin network, or BIP-110, is a bad idea.
The Bitcoin-110 improvement proposal was introduced in December 2025 to prevent non-fungible token listings and other arbitrary data from spamming the network and to preserve BTC’s primary use as a peer-to-peer payment system.
In an article of approximately 3,700 words on X.comThe man who controls the largest corporate treasury Bitcoin (BTC) advocated for what he called “neutral rules, strict consensus, open markets and permissionless innovation.”
Source: Michael Saylor on X.com
“Many Bitcoiners I respect support BIP 110. They want to keep validation accessible, protect node operators from unwanted costs and content, preserve affordable payments, and keep Bitcoin focused on sound currency rather than general-purpose data storage. These are serious concerns. I agree with the goals. I disagree on the remedy,” Saylor said. He added:
“This article is criticizing the proposal, not the people supporting it. I assume this is in good faith. Bitcoin is strongest when we can vigorously disagree without confusing allies and enemies.”
As of noon ET as of Sunday, the post had been viewed 879,000 times, with 692 replies and 852 retweets.
BIP-110 is one of the most notable protocol-level conflicts in the Bitcoin development community since the block size wars between 2015 and 2017, when ecosystem participants debated whether it was worth risking a chain split to increase the block size limit for scalability.
The proposal was presented by pseudonymous Bitcoin developer “Dathon Ohm” with support from Ocean protocol founder Luke Dashjr. Opponents include Blockstream CEO Adam Back.
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Little certainty on the approval of the BHP-110
Of course, BIP-110 will only be activated if 55% of block-validating Bitcoin nodes support the proposal over a Bitcoin block “period”.
During the last period, period number 475 between blocks 955,584 and 957,599, only 1% of the blocks were in support.
The dispute comes at a time when Ordinal activity is at an all-time low, with fewer 10,000 Ordinals recorded daily in the Bitcoin blockchain over the past month, down from the more than 400,000 seen during its peak in August 2023.
Change in the daily registrations of Ordinaries since December 2022.
Source: Dune analysis
Bock has already criticized the BIP-110, describing it is a “quest to control others.”
He said Bitcoin’s decentralization should mean “you can’t impose your opinions on others,” calling it inconsistent with BTC’s cypherpunk ethos of permissionless, censorship-resistant money.
Dashjr and other BIP-110 supporters have called Ordinal bloat poses a “serious threat” to the network, requiring an imminent solution.
They also argued that the BIP-110 would not work cause a chain split, as many fear, while adding that the BIP-110 fork imposes a temporary limit of one year and therefore would not invalidate paid transactions in the long term.
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