Overview
- The proposal, author Dathon Ohm’s BIP‑110, remains live in mid‑July but has attracted effectively zero miner backing and only narrow node adoption, making main‑chain activation unlikely.
- BIP‑110 would temporarily tighten consensus rules by capping most new outputs to about 34 bytes, limiting OP_RETURN to 83 bytes, and restricting certain witness and Taproot elements used for Ordinals‑style inscriptions.
- The plan uses a user‑activated soft‑fork style signaling window that moves into a mandatory phase in early August with possible enforcement near a projected September block if thresholds were somehow met.
- Prominent critics including Adam Back, Michael Saylor, and others say the change would reject currently valid fee‑paying transactions and set a precedent that could weaken censorship resistance, while supporters argue it would reduce on‑chain spam.
- If a small group tried to enforce BIP‑110 without broad support, exchanges, wallets, and custodians could face operational choices about which chain to support and miners could lose inscription fee revenue that some say helps secure the network.