The BIP-110 Bitcoin data limit proposal is nearing its deadline, and miners’ support is still close to 0

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BlockBeats, July 12: the Bitcoin BIP-110 proposal is set to reach an early-August deadline, but miners’ support rate is still below 1%, indicating the proposal faces significant resistance. BIP-110 stands for “Reduce Data Temporary Soft Fork,” and the core controversy lies in limiting non-financial data on the Bitcoin blockchain. The proposal plans to restrict the OP_RETURN data capacity within one year, prohibit arbitrary data writes for most data larger than 256 bytes, and limit certain script formats that are mainly used for data storage.

Supporters believe the proposal would make the Bitcoin network more focused on payment functionality and reduce the burden on node operation; opponents argue that it would escalate policy disputes over block space usage into a consensus-rule change, deciding which transactions are “acceptable.”

Strategy founder Michael Saylor and Blockstream co-founder Adam Back have both publicly opposed BIP-110. Saylor said: “There are 110 things more dangerous than junk data,” and claimed the proposal would “turn the junk data controversy into a consensus change, making some transactions that are currently valid and paying fees invalid.” Adam Back also said that if supporters cannot accept the current situation, they can choose to fork, but “Bitcoin won’t join.”

Data shows that BIP-110 uses a user-activated soft fork mechanism, setting a 55% miner signaling threshold. But currently, the miner signaling rate has never exceeded about 1%; the current cycle is 0, and there is no major mining pool support. The share of nodes running the BIP-110 software is also only in the single digits, mainly coming from Bitcoin Knots users.

The proposal’s current signaling cycle is scheduled to end near block height 959,615, with a voluntary lock-in period expected to start in early August and activation planned for around September. If broad support is still lacking by then, it could lead to a split chain formed by a minority of nodes.

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