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Bitcoin’s BIP-110 reduced-data softfork faces backlash from open-access users

Bitcoin Magazine says the proposal aims to limit certain transactions that embed extra-interpretable data, but critics argue it undermines the ledger’s censorship-resistant open writing model.

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Bitcoin Magazine highlights growing backlash around a proposed Bitcoin change known as the Reduced Data Temporary Softfork, or BIP-110, after supporters argued some transactions violate network principles by including data in locking or unlocking scripts that can be interpreted in additional ways beyond the plain Bitcoin script.

According to the article, BIP-110 backers want to reduce those data-heavy transaction patterns using a softfork they describe as having a faster deployment timeline than the two most recent softforks and a lower activation readiness threshold.

The piece also frames Bitcoin’s open-access design as its core value, arguing that anyone can write to the ledger as long as they pay fees sufficient for miners and block template creators to include the transaction.

Bitcoin Magazine’s guest author says this means Bitcoin will be used by people others may dislike, and likens resisting data restrictions to protecting speech rights that extend even to content you do not approve of.

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