- Adam Back said Bitcoin has “robustly rejected” BIP-110, arguing the proposal conflicts with the network’s decentralized ethos
- Back described BIP-110 as an attempt to impose rules on other users rather than solve a critical technical issue
- He said supporters are free to launch a separate fork but insisted the main Bitcoin network is unlikely to adopt the changes
Blockstream co-founder and CEO Adam Back said on Saturday that Bitcoin had “robustly rejected” BIP-110, a proposal that would limit non-payment data in transactions by capping certain data fields at 83 bytes and others at 256 bytes. Back, who invented hashcash, the technology Bitcoin’s mining process is built on, said he had listened to a Twitter Space where newcomers voiced support for the proposal and wanted to explain why Bitcoin resisted the change.
According to Back, Bitcoin’s decentralized design cannot be used to enforce rules on other people, even by those with good intentions. He described BIP-110 as an attempt to “police other people” rather than a genuine technical fix.
Back said supporters are unlikely to win broad agreement from the rest of the Bitcoin network to adopt their proposed rules. He noted their only real option is to split off and create a separate version of Bitcoin through a fork, adding “but bitcoin won’t be joining it.”
Earlier last month, when a supporter argued the proposal already had “consensus,” Back rejected the comparison outright, calling it a “stupid idea” that fails at technical consensus. Meanwhile, BIP-110 supporter Bitcoin Mechanic argued that mining pools face a “prisoner’s dilemma” once BIP-110 approaches its activation height, suggesting pools may signal readiness to avoid mining on the wrong side of a split.
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