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Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor and Blockstream CEO Adam Back have doubled down on their opposition to BIP-110, a proposed temporary fork to limit non-monetary transactions on the Bitcoin network.
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal-110 was introduced in December 2025 to stop nonfungible token-like Ordinals inscriptions and other arbitrary data from spamming the network and to preserve Bitcoin’s main use as a peer-to-peer cash system.
While critical of Ordinals activity, Saylor and Back fear a fork could <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/adam-back-opposes-bip110-fixing-arbitrary-data-spam" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">do more harm than good</a> to the network’s credibility. “There are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam,” Saylor said in a <a href="https://x.com/saylor/status/2075981482154209664" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">post</a> to X on Saturday, adding that BIP-110 could invalidate ordinary transactions on the network.<img alt="" height="483" src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/content/screenshot-2026-07-12-at-14-17-38-michael-saylor-on-x-there-are-110-things-more-dangerous-to-bitcoin-than-spam-bip-110-turns-a-spam-dispute-into-a-consensus-change-that-would-invalidate-some-currently-valid-fee-paying-transa.png" width="687">
Source: <a href="https://x.com/saylor/status/2075981482154209664" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Michael Saylor</a>
BIP-110 is one of the more notable protocol-level disputes in the Bitcoin development community since the Blocksize Wars between 2015 and 2017, when ecosystem participants debated whether it was worth risking a chain split to raise the block size limit for scalability.&nbsp;
BIP-110 was introduced by pseudonymous Bitcoin developer “Dathon Ohm” with the support of Ocean protocol founder Luke Dashjr.&nbsp;
<h2 id="bip-110-remains-activation-long-shot">BIP-110 remains activation long shot</h2>
BIP-110 won't be activated unless 55% of Bitcoin nodes validating blocks are in support of the proposal across a Bitcoin block “period.”
In the last period, period number 475 between block 955,584 and 957,599, only 1% of blocks were in support.
The dispute comes at a time when Ordinals activity is at near all-time lows, with fewer than <a href="https://dune.com/dgtl_assets/bitcoin-ordinals-analysis" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">10,000 </a>Ordinals inscribed into the Bitcoin blockchain on a daily basis over the last month, down from the more than 400,000 seen during its peak in August 2023.
<img alt="" height="537" src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/content/pasted-image-1993.png" width="877">Change in daily Ordinals inscriptions since December 2022. Source: <a href="https://dune.com/dgtl_assets/bitcoin-ordinals-analysis" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Dune Analytics</a>
Meanwhile, Back offered a deeper critique of BIP-110, <a href="https://x.com/adam3us/status/2075884851794735602" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">describing</a> it as a “quest to police other people.”&nbsp;
Related: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/strategy-saylor-bitcoin-credit-alternative-crypto-yield" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitcoin doesn't need Ethereum-style yield, says Strategy's Michael Saylor</a>&nbsp;
He said Bitcoin’s decentralization should mean “you can’t impose your views on others,” calling it incompatible with Bitcoin’s cypherpunk ethos of permissionless, censorship-resistant money.
Dashjr and other BIP-110 proponents have <a href="https://x.com/grok/status/2060627287452618877" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">called</a> Ordinals-driven bloat a "serious threat" to the network, prompting the need for an imminent fix.
They have also argued BIP-110 wouldn't <a href="https://x.com/LukeDashjr/status/2060595317943279883" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">cause</a> a chain split, as many fear, while adding that the BIP-110 fork imposes a temporary one-year limit and thus wouldn’t invalidate fee-paying transactions over the long term.
Features: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/features/from-bitcoin-critics-to-blockchain-believers-the-5-biggest-crypto-backflips" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">From Bitcoin critics to blockchain believers: The 5 biggest crypto backflips</a>&nbsp;

Bitcoin bulls Michael Saylor, Adam Back slam BIP-110 Ordinals proposal

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