Saylor Files 110 Indictments Against BIP-110, Jury Still Below 2% 🪨

Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor published a roughly 3,700-word essay on X.com over the weekend titled "110 Reasons BIP 110 Is a Bad Idea," intensifying his campaign against the proposed one-year Bitcoin soft fork that would tighten consensus rules to curb non-monetary data on the network. The post, dated July 18–19, 2026, had been viewed 879,000 times as of 12 p.m. ET on Sunday, drawing 692 replies and 852 retweets. "This article critiques the proposal, not the people behind it. I assume good faith. Bitcoin is strongest when we can disagree vigorously without mistaking allies for enemies," Saylor wrote.

Bitcoin Improvement Proposal-110 was introduced in December 2025 by pseudonymous developer "Dathon Ohm" with the support of Ocean protocol founder Luke Dashjr. It targets Ordinals-style inscriptions and other arbitrary data embedded in $BTC blocks, with supporters calling such activity a "serious threat" to node operators and block space affordability. Saylor acknowledged the underlying concerns, writing that he shares supporters' objectives of "keep[ing] validation accessible, protect[ing] node operators from unwanted costs and content, preserv[ing] affordable payments, and keep[ing] Bitcoin focused on sound money," but argued the remedy itself poses greater risk.

In Saylor's framing, Bitcoin "cannot read intent," so restricting the forms used to store data also blocks legitimate ones. He coined the term "Bitcoin Iatrogenic Proposal" — a treatment whose side effects cause the harm — and warned that "the precedent does not" expire when the roughly year-long restrictions lapse. He also took aim at the activation mechanics: BIP-110 would lock in if miners signal support in at least 55% of blocks during a 2,016-block period, a bar he said is "well below the 95% threshold that has historically governed permanent consensus changes in Bitcoin" and one that risks a network split.

Signaling remains far short of that threshold. During period number 475 between block 955,584 and 957,599, only 1% of blocks were in support, and as of July 13 the public BIP-110 signaling monitor at bip110.org showed approximately 1.3% support, against a voluntary signaling deadline falling around block 961,542 in August. Related reporting has tracked Bitcoin nodes running BIP-110 crossing 2%. Saylor closed by placing the dispute over Bitcoin's character, writing that the network's strength lies in the fact that "disagreement is contained by neutral rules and hard consensus," and concluding: "Bitcoin does not need guardians of purity. It needs guardians of neutrality."

Saylor's position aligns him with Blockstream CEO Adam Back, Casa's Jameson Lopp and Bitcoin advocate Samson Mow, placing him against Dashjr and the Bitcoin Knots camp in a dispute that echoes the Blocksize Wars of 2015–2017. Back has previously described BIP-110 as a "quest to police other people," arguing Bitcoin's cypherpunk ethos forbids imposing such views through consensus. The proposal's mandatory signaling window opens in August, with activation targeted around September 1, even as Ordinals activity sits at near all-time lows of fewer than 10,000 daily inscriptions over the past month, down from a peak of more than 400,000 in August 2023.