Saylor and Adam Back oppose BIP-110 Ordinals anti-bloat fork
Bitcoin executives Michael Saylor and Blockstream CEO Adam Back have reaffirmed their opposition to BIP-110, a proposed temporary Bitcoin fork aimed at curbing Ordinals-style non-monetary, NFT-like inscriptions and other arbitrary on-chain data.
BIP-110 was introduced in December 2025 by pseudonymous developer “Dathon Ohm”, with support from Ocean Protocol founder Luke Dashjr. Proponents argue Ordinals-driven bloat threatens Bitcoin’s core role as peer-to-peer cash. They also claim the change would be time-limited (about one year) and would not invalidate fee-paying transactions over the long term.
Saylor said “there are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam,” adding that BIP-110 could invalidate ordinary transactions and harm Bitcoin’s credibility. Back framed the proposal as “a quest to police other people,” arguing that Bitcoin’s decentralization and cypherpunk ethos require permissionless, censorship-resistant money.
Activation mechanics are a key point for traders: BIP-110 requires 55% of validating nodes during a “block period.” In the latest referenced period (period 475, blocks 955,584–957,599), only about 1% of blocks showed BIP-110 support, making activation unlikely.
The debate is happening while Ordinals activity is reportedly near all-time lows, with fewer than 10,000 new Ordinals inscriptions per day in the last month, down from over 400,000 at the August 2023 peak. With this backdrop, the odds of BIP-110 advancing—and therefore of any network disruption—remain low.
Neutral
The direct trading impact is likely neutral. The article centers on a contentious protocol proposal (BIP-110) that is framed as potentially harmful by Saylor/Back, but the practical barrier to activation appears high. With only ~1% of blocks showing support in the latest referenced period and a 55% validator threshold required, activation probability looks low. In similar past Bitcoin governance disputes (e.g., Blocksize Wars in 2015–2017), markets can briefly react to “fork” narratives, but when activation odds are weak, price effects usually fade quickly and liquidity normalizes.
In the short term, traders may watch sentiment around Ordinals/BTC throughput and potential “policy” debates, yet the low Ordinals inscription volume (near all-time lows) reduces urgency and speculative tail risk. Over the long term, the episode mainly influences development direction and community cohesion rather than immediate token flows, so broader market stability should remain largely unaffected unless validator support unexpectedly rises and increases activation probability.