As of July 13, no major mining pool has signaled support for the soft fork under BIP-110. Current support remains around 1%, according to monitoring data.
The proposal suggests temporarily limiting non-payment-related data in Bitcoin transactions. It restricts OP_RETURN, blocks most data fragments larger than 256 bytes, and bans certain script formats used for data storage.
Activation occurs through a user-activated soft fork: nodes apply the new rule regardless of miners’ consent. The support threshold for miners has been lowered to 55% instead of the standard 95%.
Miner support is calculated over two-week network difficulty adjustment periods — each covering 2016 blocks. In none of these periods has support exceeded 1%. Among node operators, support remains at a few percent, primarily due to alternative software Bitcoin Knots rather than the main Bitcoin Core.
The current period covers blocks from #957,600 to #959,615, with the voluntary activation threshold expiring at block height #961,632 in the next period, expected in early August.
Even if miners do not reach the required support percentage, the fork will still activate — likely in September, but only for nodes that choose to support the new rules. These nodes will form a separate, smaller chain, while the rest of the network will continue as before.
Saylor and Back Oppose BIP-110
Amid minimal support, the initiative was criticized by Strategy founder Michael Saylor and Blockstream co-founder Adam Back.
Saylor wrote that “there are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam.” He believes the proposal turns a dispute into a consensus change that could invalidate some currently valid, fee-paying transactions. This, he said, is the main threat to the first cryptocurrency’s network.
There are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam.
BIP 110 turns a spam dispute into a consensus change that would invalidate some currently valid, fee-paying transactions.
That precedent is the danger. We should save our energy for threats that really matter. $BTC https://t.co/LoSkl9XSo1
— Michael Saylor (@saylor) July 11, 2026
Back addressed BIP-110 supporters directly. He acknowledged their desire to protect the network from spam but disagreed with the proposed method.
On the filter fork topic.
I don’t usually have time, but this morning listened to one of the twitter spaces from earlier in the week, with some well meaning relative bitcoin newcomers, that humanized them, and their concerns and thoughts for why they thought that made it…— Adam Back (@adam3us) July 11, 2026
According to Back, the mission of digital gold is to build a free market based on a hard currency not controlled by any single network participant. The absence of a central authority means no player can impose their views on acceptable transactions on others. One can only change their own software — others’ remain beyond influence.
Back also highlighted the role of developer consensus, comparing it to the standard-setting process in the IETF. He stated that no programmer can implement changes across the network without the agreement of hundreds of other ecosystem participants who thoroughly review each technical decision. This collective review process protects the first cryptocurrency from hasty changes, he emphasized.
“Bitcoin respectfully says ‘no’ to you,” he concluded.
Back added that dissenters have the right to unite and create their own fork, but “Bitcoin will not join it.”
Earlier, in February, the Blockstream CEO called the BIP-110 update an attack on Bitcoin’s reputation and a “lynch trial.”
