Chief Strategy Officer Michael Saylor took to social media on Sunday to detail his “110 reasons” why a proposed temporary fork to limit non-cash transactions on the Bitcoin network, or BIP-110, is a bad idea.
The Bitcoin-110 improvement proposal was introduced in December 2025 to prevent non-fungible token-like Ordinals inscriptions and other arbitrary data from spamming the network and to preserve BTC’s primary use as a peer-to-peer cash system.
In a roughly 3,700-word post on X.com, the man who controls the largest corporate Bitcoin (BTC) treasury defended what he said are “neutral rules, strict consensus, open markets and permissionless innovation.”
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“Many Bitcoiners I respect support BIP 110. They want to keep validation accessible, protect node operators from unwanted costs and content, preserve affordable payments, and keep Bitcoin focused on sound money rather than general-purpose data storage. Those are serious concerns. I share the goals. I don’t agree with the remedy,” Saylor said. He added:
“This article criticizes the proposal, not the people behind it. I assume good faith. Bitcoin is stronger when we can disagree vigorously without confusing allies with enemies.”
As of 12 pm ET on Sunday, the post had been viewed 879,000 times, with 692 replies and 852 retweets.
BIP-110 is one of the most notable protocol-level disputes in the Bitcoin development community since the Block Size Wars between 2015 and 2017, when ecosystem participants debated whether it was worth risking a chain split to increase the block size limit for scalability.
The proposal was put forward by pseudonymous Bitcoin developer “Dathon Ohm” with support from Ocean protocol founder Luke Dashjr. Opponents include Blockstream CEO Adam Back.
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Little certainty about the approval of BHP-110
To be sure, BIP-110 will not be activated unless 55% of Bitcoin nodes validating blocks support the proposal during a Bitcoin block “period.”
In the last period, the 475th period between block 955,584 and 957,599, only 1% of the blocks were in support.
The dispute comes at a time when Ordinals activity is near all-time lows, with fewer than 10,000 Ordinals enrolled on the Bitcoin blockchain daily over the past month, down from the more than 400,000 seen during its peak in August 2023.
Change in daily Ordinal registrations from December 2022.
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Bock has previously criticized BIP-110, describing it as a “quest to surveil other people.”
He said Bitcoin’s decentralization should mean “you can’t impose your views on others,” calling it incompatible with BTC’s cypherpunk ethos of permissionless, censorship-resistant money.
Dashjr and other BIP-110 supporters have called Ordinals-driven inflation a “serious threat” to the network, prompting the need for an imminent fix.
They have also argued that BIP-110 would not cause a chain split, as so feared, while adding that the BIP-110 fork imposes a one-year time limit and would therefore not invalidate long-term fee-paying transactions.
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