Adam Back And Michael Saylor Oppose Bitcoin Proposal BIP 110

Blockstream CEO Adam Back and Strategy founder Michael Saylor posted statements opposing Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 110. According to Foresight News, Back argued in a lengthy post that BIP 110 effectively seeks to constrain others’ behavior through consensus-layer measures, which he said conflicts with Bitcoin’s decentralized and permissionless nature. He added that Bitcoin’s technical consensus mechanism functions as an “immune system,” making it difficult for changes to pass without rigorous scrutiny by hundreds of developers. Back urged BIP 110 supporters to better understand how Bitcoin works rather than pursuing a separate fork. Saylor cited Back’s post and said BIP 110 would escalate a dispute over spam into a consensus change that could render some currently valid transactions invalid. He said the precedent of such a change is the primary risk. BIP 110 is a Bitcoin improvement proposal that aims to filter or limit certain types of data-embedding transactions on-chain, such as those using OP_RETURN outputs, by modifying default relay policy. Supporters say the proposal could help curb the spread of on-chain spam.