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BIP-110 proposal reignites the Bitcoin debate over embedding data
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 would tighten consensus rules by limiting most new transaction outputs to 34 bytes and temporarily restricting Taproot features used for inscriptions.
Decrypt reports that BIP-110, a proposal to restrict methods used to embed non-financial data in Bitcoin transactions, has split prominent developers, miners, companies, and users ahead of an activation deadline for the network change.
The proposal is framed as a soft fork that would temporarily tighten Bitcoin consensus rules. Supporters say it could reduce blockchain spam and reinforce Bitcoin's role as money, while critics warn it could invalidate currently valid, fee-paying transactions and create risk of a chain split.
Decrypt says the dispute centers on how Bitcoin should evolve, including whether censorship resistance and predictability could be weakened. The article notes that transactions can carry more than payments, including text, images, token metadata, and other information via transaction scripts and witness data.
Among those weighing in, Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor argued in a post that the change would turn a spam dispute into a consensus update that could invalidate some valid transactions, while Casa Chief Security Officer Jameson Lopp said in a February blog post that BIP-110 would weaken Bitcoin's defining properties. The debate has also drawn responses from Luke Dashjr, Adam Back, and Samson Mow.
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