Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor and Blockstream CEO Adam Back have doubled down on their opposition to BIP-110, a proposed transient fork aimed at restricting non-monetary transactions on the Bitcoin network.

The Bitcoin Improvement Proposal-110 was introduced in December 2025 to prevent non-fungible token-like strings and other arbitrary data from being “spamming” across the network, and to preserve Bitcoin’s primary operate as a peer-to-peer cash system.

Saylor and Back are critical of Ordinals’ operations, but fear the fork could do more harm than good to the network’s credibility. “There are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam,” Saylor said in: post on Saturday through Oct, adding that BIP-110 could invalidate regular online transactions.

Source: Michael Saylor

BIP-110 is one of the more significant protocol-level disputes in the Bitcoin developer community since the Blocksize wars of 2015–2017, when ecosystem participants debated whether it was worth the risk of splitting the chain to raise the block size limit for the sake of scalability.

BIP-110 was introduced by pseudonymous Bitcoin creator “Dathon Ohm” with support from Ocean Protocol founder Luke Dashjr.

There is still a long way to go before BIP-110 is activated

BIP-110 will not be activated if 55% of the Bitcoin nodes validating the blocks do not support the proposal over the entire “period” of the Bitcoin block.

In the last period, issue 475, between blocks 955,584 and 957,599, only 1% of blocks supported BIP-110.

The dispute comes at a time when Ordinals activity is at near an all-time low, with fewer than 10,000 Ordinal numbers have been written to the Bitcoin blockchain daily over the past month, a huge drop from the more than 400,000 recorded at the peak in August 2023.

Change in daily housekeeping records from December 2022 Source: Dune analytics

Meanwhile, Back offered deeper criticism of BIP-110, describing it as “the desire to keep an eye on other people.”

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He said Bitcoin’s decentralization should mean “you can’t impose your views on others,” calling it inconsistent with Bitcoin’s cypherpunk ethos of permissionless and censorship-resistant money.

Dashjr and other BIP-110 supporters do called Ordinal bloat poses a “serious threat” to the network, prompting the need for immediate repair.

They also argued that BIP-110 would not do this cause chain splitting, as many fear, while adding that the BIP-110 fork imposes a transient annual limit and therefore does not invalidate payable transactions in the long term.

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