By Isaac • July 12, 2026 11:35 am •
Bitcoin is moving toward a protocol deadline with an unusual combination: a finished soft-fork proposal, a built-in path toward mandatory signaling, and essentially no visible miner support.
BIP 110 would temporarily reject several forms of large arbitrary data at the consensus layer. Its current miner-signaling rate is zero.
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That gap turns a dispute over blockchain spam into a test of how Bitcoin changes its rules. The proposal can reach its activation window on paper, while the network’s miners, nodes, exchanges, and users remain free to reject it in practice.
The word “Complete” beside a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal describes the document’s status. It does not mean Bitcoin has adopted the rules.
BIP 110, formally titled Reduced Data
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