Bitcoin Governance Fights Over What Blockspace Is For
Bitcoin's community keeps relitigating whether scarce blockspace should carry arbitrary data or only monetary transfers, turning each data-limit proposal into a recurring test of how the network changes its own rules.
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Foundry opened a miner vote on BIP-110, a soft fork to cap arbitrary data in transactions, ahead of an August deadline. It is another data-limit proposal turning the fight over what blockspace is for into a live governance test, directly advancing the thesis.
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Supporting · July 18, 2026
Bitcoin's BIP-110 Data-Limit Fork Nears August Deadline With Miner Support Below 1 Percent
Foundry opened a miner vote on BIP-110, a soft fork to cap arbitrary data in transactions, ahead of an August deadline. It is another data-limit proposal turning the fight over what blockspace is for into a live governance test, directly advancing the thesis.
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