As of July 13, no major mining pool has signaled support for the soft fork under BIP-110. Current support hovers around 1%, according to monitoring data.
The proposal aims to temporarily limit the amount of non-payment data in Bitcoin transactions. It restricts OP_RETURN, blocks most data fragments larger than 256 bytes, and imposes bans on certain script formats used for data storage.
Activation occurs through a soft fork activated by users: nodes apply the new rule regardless of miners' consent. The support threshold for miners has been lowered to 55% from the standard 95%.
Miner support is calculated over two-week difficulty adjustment periods, each covering 2016 blocks. In none of these periods has support exceeded 1%. Among node operators, the figure remains at a few percent, almost entirely due to alternative software Bitcoin Knots, rather than the main Bitcoin Core.
The current period covers blocks #957,600 to #959,615, and the voluntary activation threshold expires at block #961,632 in the next period—expected in early August.
Even if miners fail to reach the required support percentage, the fork will still activate—presumably in September—but only for those nodes that choose to adopt the new rules. These nodes will form a separate, smaller chain, while the rest of the network will continue to operate as usual.
Saylor and Back Oppose BIP-110
Amid minimal support, the initiative has been criticized by Strategy founder Michael Saylor and Blockstream co-founder Adam Back.
Saylor stated, "There are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam." He believes the proposal turns a spam dispute into a consensus change that could invalidate some currently valid, fee-paying transactions. He identified this as 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, acknowledging their desire to protect the network from spam but disagreeing 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 that is not controlled by any single participant in the network. The absence of a central authority means that no player can impose their views on acceptable transactions on others. One can only change their own software—others remain outside their influence.
Back also highlighted the role of consensus among developers, comparing it to the standard-setting process in the IETF. He stated that no programmer can push a change through the network without the consent of hundreds of other ecosystem participants who carefully scrutinize each technical decision. This process of collective review 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 band together and create their own fork, but “Bitcoin will not join it.”
Recall that in February, the CEO of Blockstream called the BIP-110 update an attack on Bitcoin's reputation and a “Lynch trial.”