Bitcoin’s BIP-110 enters mandatory signaling with miner support below 3%
The deployment milestone tests whether enforcing nodes can sustain the change amid limited miner signaling and discussion of a hard-fork fallback.
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110, known as BIP-110, is currently in the mandatory-signaling phase with miner support at just 2.53%, far below the 55% threshold required for early activation. The proposal, written by developer Dathon Ohm, aims to restrict transaction outputs and increase transaction fees by limiting output script sizes, OP_RETURN outputs, data pushes, and Taproot features.
Nodes enforcing BIP-110 will start rejecting blocks that don't signal support as of block 961,632. While a minority branch has emerged, it quickly lagged behind the dominant chain and has little mining support, making a sustained rival chain unlikely. Supporters argue the restrictions would discourage non-monetary data, while critics, including Michael Saylor and Adam Back, warn the proposal could divide Bitcoin and cause nodes to reject transactions under existing rules. A more extensive fallback has been discussed, but no activation date has been set.
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