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<h2 id="near-zero-support-as-the-deadline-arrives">Near-Zero Support as the Deadline Arrives</h2>
<p>Bitcoin's most contentious governance fight of 2026 is heading toward a quiet resolution, just not the one its backers hoped for. BIP-110, formally titled the Reduced Data Temporary Soft Fork, reaches its mandatory signaling window around August 7 with miner support sitting at zero in the current difficulty period. <cite>Cumulative backing has never broken 1% of hashrate since May.</cite><cite>The 0.31% figure translates to roughly 5 EH/s out of a total network hashrate of approximately 940 EH/s.</cite> No major mining pool has joined the effort.</p>
<p><cite>The proposal would tighten limits on OP_RETURN and other data-carrying methods for one year, a move backers say would refocus Bitcoin on payments but critics argue improperly censors valid, fee-paying transactions.</cite><cite>Originally introduced as BIP-444 in October 2025 before being formally reassigned, it was designed as a temporary measure giving Bitcoin a trial period of tighter restrictions on data usage.</cite><cite>Node adoption sits in the low single digits, carried almost entirely by Bitcoin Knots. Bitcoin Core has not endorsed the proposal and the submitted implementation has not been merged.</cite></p>
<h2 id="high-profile-opposition-and-what-happens-next">High-Profile Opposition and What Happens Next</h2>
<p><cite>Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor and Blockstream CEO Adam Back both publicly opposed BIP-110, arguing that its temporary transaction restrictions could weaken Bitcoin's neutral settlement rules and damage network credibility.</cite><cite>Saylor said BIP-110 converted a spam dispute into a consensus intervention affecting valid, fee-paying transactions, and warned that the precedent could present a greater danger than blockchain spam itself.</cite> Jameson Lopp has also voiced opposition to the proposal. <cite>Adam Back was more direct, stating that Bitcoin respectfully says no, and stressing that protocol changes should only be adopted with broad technical consensus.</cite></p>
<p><cite>BIP-110 does not rely on the usual path of overwhelming miner approval. Instead it uses a user-activated soft fork mechanism in which nodes enforce a rule whether or not miners agree, set to a 55% miner-signaling threshold rather than the traditional 95%.</cite><cite>The inscription economy that BIP-110 targets, including Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens, has become a meaningful source of miner fee revenue, which helps explain why pools have shown little appetite for a proposal that would shrink their income.</cite></p>
<p><cite>If, after the mandatory window opens, nodes running BIP-110 begin rejecting non-compliant blocks and the majority of the network does not follow, the result is not a Bitcoin upgrade but a separate minority chain.</cite><cite>The rules would expire automatically roughly one year after activation.</cite> With the numbers where they stand, BIP-110 is not changing <a href="https://x.com/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=cashtag_click" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$BTC</a>. It is simply moving its enforcers onto a chain of their own.</p>
<p><strong>Sources:</strong><br><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/07/12/bitcoin-s-bip-110-fork-deadline-nears-with-miner-support-at-zero" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CoinDesk: Bitcoin's BIP-110 Fork Deadline Nears With Miner Support at Zero</a><br><a href="https://cryptobriefing.com/bitcoin-bip-110-proposal-divided-community/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Crypto Briefing: Bitcoin Community Divided Over BIP-110 Ahead of Activation Deadline</a><br><a href="https://www.tftc.io/bip-110-fork-deadline-miner-support-zero" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">TFTC: BIP-110 Heads Into August Deadline With Miner Support at Zero</a></p>

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