{"id":74642,"date":"2026-06-27T20:49:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/bip-110-pushes-bitcoin-toward-august-fork-deadline-with-only-5-eh-s-signaling\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T20:49:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:49:38","slug":"bip-110-pushes-bitcoin-toward-august-fork-deadline-with-only-5-eh-s-signaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/bip-110-pushes-bitcoin-toward-august-fork-deadline-with-only-5-eh-s-signaling\/","title":{"rendered":"BIP-110 Pushes Bitcoin Toward August Fork Deadline With Only 5 EH\/s Signaling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"@container mb-[25px] rounded-sm overflow-clip py-0.5 pr-0.5 pl-2.5 bg-success-100\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-m overflow-clip rounded-[6px] !bg-success-10 p-3 @[420px]:p-m\">\n<h2 class=\"m-0 flex items-center gap-s text-[19px] !text-[#1c1c1c] md:text-[20px]\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"16\" height=\"10\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 10\" fill=\"none\" class=\"shrink-0 text-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M1 1.5h14\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><path d=\"M1 8.5h10\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><\/svg><span>Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"m-0 flex list-none flex-col gap-m pl-0\">\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">BIP-110 targets Ordinals and inscription data with a 1-year soft fork, facing 0.31% miner signaling as of June 2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Adam Back and Jameson Lopp warn that the proposal risks a Bitcoin chain split, calling activation parameters reckless and technically flawed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">A mandatory signaling window at block 961632 (est. Aug. 7, 2026) will test whether Ocean pool and node runners can force compliance without miner majority support.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>What BIP-110 Actually Does<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bip110.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BIP-110<\/a>, authored by Dathon Ohm and formally titled the Reduced Data Temporary Soft fork, proposes a one-year consensus-level restriction on arbitrary data embedding in <span>bitcoin<\/span> transactions. The rules would target the most common methods used for Ordinals inscriptions, large OP_RETURN payloads, BRC-20 tokens, and certain <span>Taproot<\/span> constructions repurposed for data storage.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal is written as a fork, albeit a soft fork, meaning its new rules are stricter than existing ones, but backward compatible. Standard monetary transactions using P2PKH, P2WPKH, or <span>Taproot<\/span> key-path spends would remain fully valid. After 52,416 blocks (roughly one year), the rules expire automatically with no lingering enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters say it addresses a real problem: data storage competing with payments raises fees, increases <span>node<\/span> operating costs, and bends <span>Bitcoin<\/span>\u2019s incentive structure away from its monetary purpose.<\/p>\n<h2>The Numbers That Define the Risk<\/h2>\n<p>The activation parameters are aggressive. BIP-110 uses a modified BIP9 deployment requiring only 55% miner signaling (1,109 of 2,016 blocks per retarget period) rather than the traditional 95% threshold. If that threshold is not met naturally, a mandatory signaling window beginning around block 961632 (projected Aug. 7, 2026) will reject any block that fails to signal bit 4.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_826769\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-826769\" style=\"width:2108px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-826769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coin Dance <span>Bitcoin Nodes<\/span> Summary shows <span>Bitcoin<\/span> Knots <span>nodes<\/span> stand today at around 22.65% of the aggregate 23,795 <span>nodes<\/span> running <span>Bitcoin<\/span>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As of late June 2026, miner signaling sits at 0.31% of total <span>hashrate<\/span>, around 5 EH\/s out of a network total near 940 EH\/s. More recently, over the last day, the website bip110.org\/monitor shows signaling at <a href=\"https:\/\/bip110.org\/monitor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">0.00%<\/a>. Ocean pool has produced the majority of signaling blocks since the first appeared in March 2026. <span>Node<\/span> adoption for BIP-110-capable software (primarily <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/from-peak-to-plunge-bitcoin-knots-loses-nearly-a-third-of-its-nodes-since-sept-14\/\">Bitcoin Knots<\/a> variants) ranges from an estimated 2% to 8% of listening <span>nodes<\/span>, though some figures are disputed.<\/p>\n<h2>How a Split Happens<\/h2>\n<p> <span>Bitcoin<\/span>\u2019s heaviest-chain rule is what makes this dangerous. If enforcing <span>nodes<\/span> and sympathetic miners begin rejecting blocks that contain non-compliant transactions, and those blocks carry valid proof-of-work under legacy rules, two competing chains emerge. Enforcing <span>nodes<\/span> build one chain. Legacy <span>nodes<\/span> follow another.<\/p>\n<p>A minority-enforcement scenario would likely produce a slower, lower- <span>hashrate<\/span> BIP-110 chain as difficulty adjusts downward. That chain could survive or wither depending on whether exchanges, wallets, and users assign it economic value. The disruption itself, including halted exchange deposits, replay risk, and infrastructure confusion, would occur regardless of which chain ultimately prevails.<\/p>\n<h2>Critics: \u2018This Is Not the Way\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Adam Back, the cypherpunk and Blockstream co-founder, has been direct on X, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/adam3us\/status\/2064933366458208335?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stating<\/a>: \u201cIt really doesn\u2019t work, breaks multiple things, doesn\u2019t have tech nor ecosystem consensus. Each is fatal. It has all four. We all hate spam. But this is not the way. You\u2019re gonna hurt yourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jameson Lopp published a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lopp.net\/a-laymans-guide-to-bip-110\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">detailed analysis<\/a> calling BIP-110 \u201creckless\u201d and \u201cdoomed to fail.\u201d His critique covers split risk, potential unspendable <span>UTXOs<\/span> in rare <span>Taproot<\/span> edge cases, the proposal\u2019s ineffectiveness at actually stopping data storage long-term (embedding can be done in other ways), and the compatibility burden it places on wallets, Miniscript tooling, and pre-signed transactions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBIP-110\u2019s activation relies on a low 55% miner signaling threshold for a User-Activated Soft Fork (UASF),\u201d Lopp\u2019s blog post explains. \u201cThis greatly increases the chances of a \u2018chain split, \u2018 in which there are 2 competing chains vying to be \u2018the real <span>Bitcoin<\/span>.\u2019 During a chain split scenario you should expect the entire ecosystem to grind to a halt as a result of uncertainty around which fork will win and resulting double-spend risks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Song drew heavy criticism on X after declining to take a position, writing that he lacked sufficient knowledge of the consequences. \u201cI am not \u2018for\u2019 or \u2018against\u2019 BIP110. The reason being that I don\u2019t know enough about the system to know the consequences of either path. We\u2019ll know a little more when the soft fork resolves one way or the other, but currently, I have little idea of how anything plays out,\u201d Song <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jimmysong\/status\/2070885856970179003?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explained<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-BIP-110 accounts interpreted his neutrality as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cbspears\/status\/2070895643283853820?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">audience capture<\/a> and doing nothing. While caution is commendable, taking it to this extreme leads to total inaction, BIP-110 proponent dubbed the Softfork Mechanic explained. \u201cI respect the humility of course, but this exceeds that and becomes paralysis. <span>Bitcoin<\/span> is not entirely static,\u201d the Softfork Mechanic <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GrassFedBitcoin\/status\/2070906550554964209?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> to Song.<\/p>\n<p>The X account added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSegwit and <span>Taproot<\/span> were enormous changes with some horrible consequences. BIP110 is an extremely minor guardrail placed on the latter and it is easy to conclude both that it is necessary given the damage <span>taproot<\/span> did in practice whilst vanishingly unlikely to have further unforseen consequences itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blockstream\u2019s Back also responded to Song\u2019s post as well. \u201cThere\u2019s no technical consensus,\u201d Back <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/adam3us\/status\/2070911555638612106?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">insisted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Supporters Push Back<\/h2>\n<p>Supporters also argue miners will not sacrifice block rewards over spam fees once the choice becomes real, limiting sustained split risk. Others invoke BIP148, the 2017 UASF that helped force Segwit activation, as precedent for user-activated pressure working despite miner resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Matteo Pellegrini recently reached out to a large audience on Club Orange, a bitcoin-only social network, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/matteopelleg\/status\/2070826275644883021?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sending messages<\/a> to roughly 17,000 people and asking them to \u201czap me back if they support BIP110.\u201d With a daily active user base of about 500, Pellegrini said he had already received over 100 positive responses. Pellegrini concludes that if this level of engagement mirrors the broader network of \u201c <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/what-is-a-bitcoin-node\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">node<\/a> runners,\u201d we should \u201cexpect 20-25% of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/what-is-a-bitcoin-node\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nodes<\/a> supporting BIP110.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>What Comes Next<\/h2>\n<p>BIP-110 expires automatically if it activates and no follow-on proposal extends it. Whether it passes or fails, the proposal has already forced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binance.com\/en\/price\/bitcoin\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bitcoin<\/a>\u2019s governance tension into the open: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/what-is-a-bitcoin-node\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">node<\/a> runners versus miners, spam protection versus data freedom, UASF urgency versus broad consensus requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The mandatory block window arrives in approximately six weeks. That is enough time for signaling to shift dramatically or for the ecosystem to move firmly in the other direction.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/bip-110-pushes-bitcoin-toward-august-fork-deadline-with-only-5-eh-s-signaling\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) Key Takeaways BIP-110 targets Ordinals and inscription data with a 1-year soft fork, facing 0.31% miner signaling as of June 2026. Adam Back and Jameson Lopp warn that the proposal risks a Bitcoin chain split, calling activation parameters reckless and technically flawed. 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