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- BIP 110 reached “Complete” on June 25, 2026, considering a one-year restriction on Bitcoin transaction data.
- The mining token for this request is at 0.86%, significantly lower than the 55% required for the initial closing.
- Official signing starts at block 961,632, which is expected around August 7, with full enforcement on September 1.
- Ming pool Foundry opened an internal poll that could change the results before the deadline.
Bitcoin’s proposal for BIP 110, a one-year soft program that would also impose stricter limits on the amount of illegal miners they can invest in, it ended on June 25, 2026. Data showing at the end of the week put mine support at just 0.86%, a fraction of the 55% needed for miners to block the rule early and prove it is working. The shortfall is less than it would be elsewhere in the history of Bitcoin’s governance, because BIP 110 does not require a miner’s license to operate. Its approval phase begins only at block 961,632, which is expected on August 7, and full enforcement follows September 1 regardless of the number of miners who choose at that time. Tokens work by having miners record the blocks they produce to indicate whether they support the change, similar to block-driven votes.
A Law That Wrote Itself
The idea is there because of the decision that Bitcoin Core made a few months ago. By the end of 2025, Core manufacturers removed the historical 80-byte limit on OP_RETURN, the small Bitcoin site allows users to connect with the transaction to store non-paid data, such as a small paper, image, or history, in order to push users of rich data to save the storage instead of methods that cost UTXO set, the ledger of unused money each point must hold. BIP 110 reverses the calls and moves forward, recording data pushes at 256 bytes and OP_RETURN only at 83 bytes through seven unified rules that block new rules that every computer running Bitcoin software must follow. Node-level support ranges between 7% and 15%, borne mostly by users of Bitcoin Knots and not Core. Knots has been for years as a customer to choose an operator who wants a strict limit that exits their computer and passes before the mines to verify them, and this battle has turned into a camp based on the skills of developers such as Luke Dashjr and methods such as Bitcoin University, who do writings, Ordinals, and Runes as spam bloating to save money for all node operations.
None of the mine’s math is fixed, however. The Foundry controls between 25% and 30% of the global hash rate, and opened an internal vote over the weekend to allow owners to control their share of the pool’s power by showing BIP 110. A meaningful shake-up from the Foundry base could pull support well above 0.86% before block 961,632 is reached, although there is no guarantee of time.
| Date or Block Height | Milestone | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| June 25, 2026 | BIP 110 reaches “Complete”. | It has been confirmed |
| Ends July 18-19, 2026 | Miner’s exposure measured at 0.86% | Below the 55% threshold required for early acceptance by miners |
| Block 961,632 (~August 7, 2026) | Valid signing begins (enforced by the node’s software, not by the miner’s vote) | Automatic, independent of miner’s support |
| September 1, 2026 | Accomplishing the whole goal | It is waiting |
A timeline showing BIP 110 events from the end of June to its launch in September 2026.
Answers to Camp Ordinals and Relaxation Rules for DOG Mode
The representative of Ordinals Leonidas prepared calculations on July 16 and 17: GALU Mode, another Core client that refreshes the transmission process instead of tying the corresponding rules, allowing actions close to the size of the block and cutting the dust limit to 1 satoshi. Supporters say that they release about $25 million in bitcoin that is currently sitting under the dust limit, a small payment size node will be difficult to send because the fee to move it more money than the payment itself. The important distinction here is structure. The GALU interface automatically modifies the mempool, a waiting room where unconfirmed events sit before being picked up, and the relaying process the nodes use to decide which events to pass to another destination. It leaves the rules of what makes a log valid to itself. This means that DOG Mode only needs one miner willing to put together what needs to be done, instead of relying on the BIP 110 online contract.
| Part | BIP 110 / Bitcoin Knots | DOG Mode |
|---|---|---|
| The type of change | Consensus rule (network wide) | Local settings on individual nodes |
| OP_RETURN cap | 83 pa | Unlimited, on Core v30 |
| Dust limit | Unchangeable | Cut to 1 satoshi |
| The key to activation | Network node setup | One willing to mine |
Comparison table of agreement and point difference between BIP 110 and another DOG Mode client.
Blockstream CEO Adam Back spent the weekend explaining the problem. If the nodes running the BIP 110 rules start rejecting blocks when they are hit, while many unaided miners keep mining under the old rules, the network splits into two chains that stop recognizing each other’s blocks. In the background he called the loser “the chain of Pompeii,” the few networks that were stopped during the split, and criticized the supporters of BIP 110 on X for not being able to track the real money behind the project.
MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor took a more controversial stance in a weekend article titled “110 reasons BIP-110 is a bad idea.” His argument: money can’t distinguish legitimate from spam based on its structure, putting this distinction as a tool for analyzing the people involved. He warns that the weapon could later be pointed at the company’s secrets or systems when it becomes available. They combine it with a financial warning – suppressing heavy data loads reduces interest rates in the same way that block subsidies, which receive fixed rewards for each block, gradually decrease, forcing miners to rely more on fees to be profitable.
Seeking Alpha downgraded its Bitcoin rating from Strong Buy to Tactical Buy over the weekend, citing regulatory risks associated with the August deadline rather than long-term currency changes. MicroStrategy alone holds 843,775 BTC, and the financial industry is responsible for the value of Bitcoin, especially for the law issued that does not work without much cooperation – with the soft fork activating at a sub-1% mine support, perfectly because the policy promotes it regardless, precisely the control of uncertainty that since the type of 20 Warededed Block. What happens next depends on the Foundry’s pre-closing vote of 961,632 and whether the Knots launch continues its 7% to 15% stake in the remaining weeks.
