The core controversy of BIP-110 goes far beyond the data size limit; it is the drastic drop in the miner support threshold for protocol upgrades—from 95% down to 55%. This directly challenges Bitcoin’s conservative governance paradigm over the past decade, attempting to lower the consensus cost for contentious operations such as “clearing inscriptions.”

Although the proposal claims to protect Bitcoin’s monetary properties, critics including Michael Saylor point to its deeper risks: it could set a precedent for on-chain censorship based on subjective value judgments and hinder the development of Layer2s that rely on complex scripting. More importantly, the proposal bundles two major changes—“data limits” and “lowered thresholds”—making it look more like a power grab in governance than a simple technical optimization.

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