BIP-110 Fork Deadline Looms: Miners Resist Proposed Data Restrictions
Bitcoin is facing one of its most contentious protocol tests since SegWit as the BIP-110 fork deadline looms. The proposal, authored by Dathon Ohm, targets the methods used by Ordinals inscriptions and large OP_RETURN payloads, but doesn't describe itself as an Ordinals ban.
The live signaling data shows almost no miner backing for the proposal, with 0.00% signaling in the current difficulty period on July 27, about 13 days before the mandatory window opens at block 961,632.
Miners have their own reason to resist BIP-110 as inscription-related activity has brought meaningful fee revenue at a time when the block subsidy keeps falling every four years. Critics see Ordinals as 'junk' competing with payments and raising costs for node operators and users, while supporters see it as fee-paying transactions that follow the rules.
The proposal would temporarily restrict several ways of carrying arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions for 52,416 blocks, roughly one year after activation, using a modified BIP-9 deployment with version bit 4, a 55% threshold, and a mandatory signaling period before the maximum activation height.