Executive Chairman of Strategy Michael Saylor took to social media on Sunday to detail his “110 Reasons” why the proposed momentary fork to restrict non-monetary transactions on the Bitcoin network, or BIP-110, is a bad idea.
There was a proposal to improve Bitcoin-110 introduced in December 2025 to prevent immutable token-like ordinal strings and other arbitrary data from spamming the network, and to preserve BTC’s primary apply as a peer-to-peer cash system.
In a post with about 3,700 words on the topic X.comthe man who controls the largest corporate treasury of Bitcoin (BTC) made the case for what he said were “neutral rules, firm 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, keep payments affordable, and keep Bitcoin focused on sound money rather than general-purpose data storage. These are serious concerns. I share the goals. I disagree on the remedy,” Saylor said. Added:
“This article criticizes the proposal, not the people behind it. I assume good faith. Bitcoin is strongest when we can strongly disagree without confusing allies with enemies.”
As of Sunday at 12 p.m. EST, the post had been viewed 879,000 times, with 692 replies and 852 retweets.
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.
The proposal was presented by pseudonymous Bitcoin creator “Dathon Ohm” with the support of Ocean protocol founder Luke Dashjr. Opponents include Blockstream CEO Adam Back.
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Low confidence in approval of BHP-110
To be sure, BIP-110 will not be activated unless 55% of the Bitcoin nodes validating the blocks support the proposal over the entire “period” of the Bitcoin block.
In the last period, period No. 475, between blocks 955,584 and 957,599, only 1% of blocks received support.
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, up from more than 400,000 recorded at the peak in August 2023.
Change in daily order signs from December 2022.
Source: Dune analytics
Bock has previously criticized BIP-110, describing it as “the desire to keep an eye on other people.”
He said Bitcoin’s decentralization should mean “you can’t impose your views on others,” calling it inconsistent with BTC’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 and necessitates 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 momentary annual limit and therefore does not invalidate payable transactions in the long term.
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