Saylor turns heat with 110 reasons against BIP-110
Strategy’s Michael Saylor turns heat with a detailed list of 110 reasons why BIP-110 is a bad idea. The Bitcoin treasury chief said he shares goals to keep Bitcoin focused on sound money but disagrees with the temporary fork remedy meant to curb Ordinals spam and non-monetary data on the network. His roughly 3,700-word critique landed on X.com on Sunday and quickly drew hundreds of thousands of views.
Key Takeaways
- Saylor outlined “110 reasons” opposing BIP-110 while saying he shares supporters’ objectives.
- BIP-110, introduced in December 2025, would temporarily limit non-monetary Bitcoin transactions such as Ordinals inscriptions.
- Activation needs 55% node support in a block period; the latest period showed only about 1% support.
- The debate echoes the Blocksize Wars and pits figures such as Luke Dashjr against Adam Back.
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What did Saylor say about BIP-110?
Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor posted what he called “110 reasons” that the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal is a bad idea. He framed the essay around “neutral rules, hard consensus, open markets, and permissionless innovation.”
“Many Bitcoiners I respect support BIP 110,” Saylor wrote, citing aims such as accessible validation, protecting node operators, affordable payments, and keeping Bitcoin focused on sound money rather than general-purpose data storage. “Those are serious concerns. I share the objectives. I disagree about the remedy.”
He stressed the critique targets the proposal, not its backers, and urged vigorous disagreement without treating allies as enemies. As of 12 p.m. ET Sunday, Cointelegraph reported the post had about 879,000 views, 692 replies and 852 retweets.
Why was BIP-110 proposed in the first place?
BIP-110 was introduced in December 2025 as a temporary fork intended to stop NFT-like Ordinals inscriptions and other arbitrary data from spamming the network. Supporters want to preserve Bitcoin’s main use as a peer-to-peer cash system.
Pseudonymous developer “Dathon Ohm” introduced the proposal with backing from Ocean protocol founder Luke Dashjr. Opponents include Blockstream CEO Adam Back, who has called the push a “quest to police other people” and argued decentralization means you cannot impose your views on others.
Dashjr and other supporters call Ordinals-driven bloat a “serious threat,” argue BIP-110 would not cause a lasting chain split, and note the fork would impose a temporary one-year limit rather than permanently invalidating fee-paying transactions.
Does BIP-110 have enough support to activate?
BIP-110 will not activate unless 55% of Bitcoin nodes validating blocks support it across a Bitcoin block period. In period 475, between blocks 955,584 and 957,599, only 1% of blocks signaled support.
The fight is one of the more notable protocol disputes since the Blocksize Wars of 2015–2017. It arrives as Ordinals activity sits near all-time lows, with fewer than 10,000 inscriptions a day over the last month versus more than 400,000 at the August 2023 peak.
Saylor’s intervention keeps pressure on a remedy that remains far from consensus, even among people who say they want the same outcomes for Bitcoin’s monetary focus.