Bitcoin community conflict grows over data-filtering BIP-110

Conflict within the Bitcoin community is intensifying over Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 110, which seeks to limit the recording of data from protocols like Ordinals and Runes on the blockchain, U.Today reported. Blockstream CEO Adam Back has voiced strong opposition, arguing that consensus-level transaction censorship poses a greater threat than spam. He warned that such a measure could render existing UTXOs unusable, effectively freezing user funds, and also pointed to the risk of a network split. According to Back, activating a soft fork with a lower threshold of 55% instead of the traditional 95% could cause the blockchain to fragment. The debate over BIP-110 is now seen as a crucial test for the future of Bitcoin's censorship resistance and decentralized governance.