Bitcoin Community Divided Over Proposed BIP-110 Measure

A contentious issue has emerged within the Bitcoin community with the introduction of BIP-110, a proposed soft fork aimed at filtering spam through protocols such as Ordinals and Runes.

The measure, which would temporarily restrict the volume of arbitrary data written into the blockchain for one year, has been met with resistance from prominent figures including Blockstream CEO Adam Back.

Back and other industry veterans have expressed concerns that BIP-110 could compromise the network's neutrality by censoring transaction types at the consensus level. They also warn that the proposal could result in user funds being frozen due to unusable UTXOs, and potentially lead to a network split if not implemented uniformly.

Back described the plan as an 'intentional literal downgrade' that would break userspace and disable upgrade hooks.