Breaking: Bitcoin BIP-110 Soft Fork Fails After Strong Opposition From Michael Saylor

The BIP-110 soft fork proposed by Bitcoin has not been successful in gaining the necessary support from the community as some well-known Bitcoin supporters like Michael Saylor, Adam Back and JAN3 CEO Samson Mow are strongly against it. The proposal was to temporarily block the non-payment data on the Bitcoin blockchain but never went on to receive the necessary signalling for activation.

Bitcoin BIP-110 Fails To Get Consensus Support

Farside UK announced the outcome on X, writing, “BIP-110 has now failed to reach a 55% threshold and can never reach such a threshold! BIP-110 failed and it will now spin off (Assuming no re-orgs).” Earlier this week, the account had warned, “BIP-110 now needs over 73% miner signalling for the rest of this period, or else it will never reach the 55% threshold and will just spin off into a new coin.”

The idea was to ban for one year the integration of pictures, text, and other information not directly related to bitcoin payments. The temporary limitations would be in place to mitigate blockchain spam and free up network resources for financial transactions, supporters said. The concept, however, did generate a lot of discussion in the Bitcoin community.

Michael Saylor Is Not The Only One Who Is Against BIP-110

While BIP-110 was touted as anti-spam, it was met with opposition from many prominent Bitcoin advocates. But even some of the most vocal Bitcoin supporters voiced objections to the idea, including Michael Saylor, Adam Back and Samson Mow.

Some critics said that the soft fork would add unnecessary technical risks. Some developers cautioned about a potential activation bug that could lead to a chain split. Meanwhile, others showed that images can still be recorded on the blockchain in spite of the proposed restrictions. These comments raised doubts about whether the changes will have the desired effect.

Discussion Over Temporary Restrictions

BIP-110 was submitted to developers in late 2025 and was developed by Dathon Ohm, and it suggested seven changes to the consensus that will be temporary but last for approximately one year. These include limits on witness elements, restrictions on spending some undefined outputs, new limits on control block size, restrictions on spending certain outputs, and banning executable OP_IF and OP_NOTIF instructions in the Tapscript.

The proposal proposed coins stored prior to the new rules be considered spendable. Some pre-signed transactions, however, could become unusable if they were submitted during the temporary restrictions if they had been prepared long ago, which developers said would need to be addressed.