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Bitcoin bulls Michael Saylor, Adam Back slam BIP-110 Ordinals proposal

Latest NewsPublishedJul 12, 2026

Bitcoin Debate Heats Up Over Ordinals Proposal

The Bitcoin community is abuzz with debate over the proposed BIP-110, a temporary fork aimed at limiting non-monetary transactions on the network. Despite a significant decline in Ordinals transaction activity, the proposal has sparked strong opinions from prominent figures like Michael Saylor and Adam Back. They fear that a fork could harm the network’s credibility, with Saylor stating that there are more pressing issues than “spam” to address.

Opposition to BIP-110

Saylor and Back are not alone in their opposition to BIP-110, which was introduced to prevent nonfungible token-like Ordinals inscriptions from “spamming” the network. The proposal has been met with resistance, with many arguing that it could invalidate ordinary transactions on the network. Back has offered a deeper critique, describing BIP-110 as a “quest to police other people” that is incompatible with Bitcoin’s decentralization and cypherpunk ethos.

In contrast, proponents of BIP-110, like Luke Dashjr, argue that Ordinals-driven bloat poses a “serious threat” to the network, necessitating an imminent fix. However, with Ordinals activity at near all-time lows, the urgency of the proposal has been called into question. As the debate rages on, it’s essential to consider the potential impact on the network and its users, particularly those earning passive income through Cloud Rewards or invested in Green Crypto like $ECP.

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BIP-110 is one of the more notable protocol-level disputes in the Bitcoin development community since the Blocksize Wars between 2015 and 2017, when ecosystem participants debated whether it was worth risking a chain split to raise the block size limit for scalability. 

BIP-110 was introduced by pseudonymous Bitcoin developer “Dathon Ohm” with the support of Ocean protocol founder Luke Dashjr. 

BIP-110 is a long shot from activating

BIP-110 won’t be activated unless 55% of Bitcoin nodes validating blocks are in support of the proposal across a Bitcoin block “period.”

In the last period, period number 475 between block 955,584 and 957,599, only 1% of blocks were BIP-110-supportive.

The dispute comes at a time when Ordinals activity is at near all-time lows, with fewer than 10,000 Ordinals inscribed into the Bitcoin blockchain on a daily basis over the last month, down massively from the more than 400,000 seen during its peak in August 2023.

Change in daily Ordinals inscriptions since December 2022. Source: Dune Analytics

Meanwhile, Back offered a deeper critique of BIP-110, describing it as a “quest to police other people.” 

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He said Bitcoin’s decentralization should mean “you can’t impose your views on others,” calling it incompatible with Bitcoin’s cypherpunk ethos of permissionless, censorship-resistant money.

Dashjr and other BIP-110 proponents have called Ordinals-driven bloat a “serious threat” to the network, prompting the need for an imminent fix.

They have also argued BIP-110 wouldn’t cause a chain split, as many fear, while adding that the BIP-110 fork imposes a temporary one-year limit and thus wouldn’t invalidate fee-paying transactions over the long term.

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• Bitcoin Ordinals
• Transactions
• Michael Saylor
• Adam Back
• Bitcoin

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