Back put it bluntly: if you force it, it will fork. Saylor added the finishing blow: once this precedent is set, going forward, whose fee-paying transactions will be safe? Two old-timers pulled the trigger at the same time—BIP 110 is likely to be “over” for good.

Crypto news: Adam Back, co-founder of Blockstream and inventor of hashcash, and Michael Saylor, founder of Strategy, both posted to oppose pushing BIP 110 on the Bitcoin network. Adam Back said BIP 110 attempts to regulate others’ transactions, violating Bitcoin’s principles of decentralization and permissionlessness; if it is forced through, it will only lead to a fork. Michael Saylor added that BIP 110 escalates a spam-content dispute into a consensus change, invalidating some valid transactions that paid fees. He believes this precedent is extremely dangerous, and the community should focus its efforts on addressing more core threats.