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Michael Saylor urges Bitcoin to reject BIP-110 anti-spam soft fork
The debate centers on a one-year soft fork that would restrict certain data-heavy transactions, with an Aug. 7 signaling window and rules expected to take effect in early September for supporting nodes.
Michael Saylor, co-founder and executive chairman of Strategy, published a 110-point essay on X July 18 urging the Bitcoin network to reject BIP-110, an “anti-spam” soft fork proposal. The essay argues that a consensus mechanism cannot reliably assess the purpose of valid, fee-paying transactions, calling the proposed fix more dangerous than the data issue it targets, and warns that the rule would set a censorship precedent.
Saylor said that those who object to unwanted data can opt out of relaying, indexing, or mining it, and that any consensus rule should instead address a demonstrated denial-of-service or validation risk. He also framed BIP-110 as a “Bitcoin Iatrogenic Proposal” and closed with the view that Bitcoin needs “guardians of neutrality” rather than “guardians of purity.”
BIP-110 is described as a temporary, one-year soft fork that bundles seven restrictions on data-heavy transactions. According to the proposal timeline cited in The Defiant, a mandatory signaling period is expected to open near block 961,632 around Aug. 7, with enforcing nodes beginning to reject blocks that fail to signal, and with the rules taking effect for those nodes around Sept. 1.
The piece also notes that signaling blocks currently represent 0.86% of the difficulty period, far below the 55% threshold needed for early lock-in, and that support has not exceeded roughly 1%. It says the authoring proposal monitor indicates that if support stays near those levels, BIP-110 nodes could reject nearly all blocks from non-signaling miners during the mandatory window, creating a risk of a split onto a minority chain.
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