BIP-110 Proposal to Limit Bitcoin Data Fails to Gain Traction

A proposal to limit the amount of data that can be sent on Bitcoin's blockchain has failed after failing to gain sufficient support from miners. The proposal, known as BIP-110, aimed to raise the cost and difficulty of sending large amounts of data on the network, such as Ordinals inscriptions.

The proposal would have implemented seven consensus restrictions, including limiting new output scriptPubKey to 83 bytes and restricting multi-data push and witness stack elements to 256 bytes. However, it failed to gain sufficient support from miners, with only 51 blocks signaling in favor of the proposal, or 2.53% of the total.

Despite its failure, the controversy surrounding BIP-110 is unlikely to end soon. Ordinals supporters are likely to continue pushing for DOG Mode, a plan to relax node forwarding rules and allow for larger data transactions. Meanwhile, opponents will likely propose alternative solutions that do not involve changing the consensus rules.

For now, users who hold assets on the BIP-110 chain should exercise caution, as there is no built-in replay protection on this chain. This means that transactions may be replayed on the main Bitcoin network, potentially leading to losses for users who have transferred their assets to the BIP-110 chain.