🔥 BIP 110 is nearing the deadline, and miner support is close to zero

The BIP 110 proposal is set to end in early August, with miner support so far at under 1%. It aims to restrict OP_RETURN and data writes exceeding 256 bytes, trying to put Bitcoin’s “non-financial data” in a cage. Supporters want to strengthen payments and reduce node pressure, while opponents—including Michael Saylor and Adam Back—warn that escalating the data debate into a consensus-rule change could carry greater risk than the spam itself.
This is a clash of Bitcoin’s underlying philosophy. On one blockchain, some people want it to be purely money, while others allow it to carry inscriptions, Ordinals, and even more complex data. If BIP 110 passes, it would mean the community uses hard rules to define what “Bitcoin should do,” rather than relying on the market or user preferences. Miners continue to coolly ignore it, and the proposal will naturally fail—but the controversy won’t disappear.
Miner support being close to zero is a signal in itself. No major mining pools have publicly supported it so far, and the proposal lacks an execution foundation. But what opponents fear is setting a precedent for “changing data rules using consensus.” Today it limits data; tomorrow will it limit transaction types too? This concern has made BIP 110 a test case for Bitcoin governance.
The risk is that if a small number of nodes force activation out of dissatisfaction with spam, it could trigger a chain split. The probability is extremely low, but the 2017 SegWit controversy showed that the community’s tolerance for consensus changes is limited. The outcome of BIP 110 will affect future governance attitudes toward on-chain applications such as inscriptions and tokenization.
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