BIP-110 Proposal Dies: Bitcoin Miners Reject Reduced Data Temporary Soft Fork
A proposal to introduce new rules to Bitcoin's protocol, known as BIP-110, has been deemed dead after failing to reach the required threshold of miner support. The Reduced Data Temporary Soft Fork, authored by Dathon Ohm with Luke Dashjr credited for the original draft, aimed to cap new transaction outputs at 34 bytes and restrict Taproot witness data pushes to 256 bytes.
The proposal's authors argued that these changes were necessary to prevent bloating of the blockchain and high fees during 2023 and 2024. However, miner signaling data showed that only approximately 0.42% of mined blocks signaled support for the proposal since May 1, 2026.
The four major pools controlling more than 70% of Bitcoin's hashrate never signaled in favor of BIP-110. F2Pool refused to signal, while AntPool and Foundry Digital remained silent throughout.