Michael Saylor joined the Bitcoin BIP-110 battle with a 110-point lawsuit against temporary soft forks that restrict the use of certain arbitrary data and scripts.
His intervention shows 0.89% signaling in live monitoring and lands while the current difficult period is already mathematically unable to reach the proposed early lock threshold.
Editor’s note: BIP-110 proposes a one-year Bitcoin soft fork that temporarily restricts the use of certain arbitrary data and scripts at the consensus level. While proponents argue that this limit reduces data storage abuse and protects node resources, critics warn that the forced signaling paths and transaction rejections currently in effect under Bitcoin’s rules could set a dangerous consensus precedent and increase the risk of chain fragmentation.
The executive chairman of Bitcoin’s largest corporate holder, Strategy Inc., said he sympathizes with proponents’ desire to protect the network, but believes “the proposed treatments are more dangerous than the symptoms.”
His arguments support neutral base layer rules, hard consensus, open markets, and permissionless innovation. In a previous post, he warned of precedent that would invalidate currently valid fee-paying transactions.
Saylor’s institutional weight raises the profile of the controversy, but it does not give him any special authority over the Bitcoin consensus. What matters next is whether miners, enforcement nodes, and economic actors can adjust before the proposed fixed block height arrives.
One last regular early lock period left
The monitor recorded 11 signal blocks out of 1,236 signal blocks tracked on July 20 at 06:07 UTC. There are 780 blocks left and 1,098 more signals are needed to reach the 1,109 block threshold. Even if all remaining blocks send signals, the period ends with only 791 signals.
Therefore, the next 2,016 block period, height 959,616 to 961,631, is the last perfect chance to pass the normal threshold and lock in. A regular BIP requires 1,109 signaling blocks, which is approximately 55%.
If this period fails, the enforcement node requires bit 4 from height 961,632 to 963,647 and rejects blocks that omit it. From the July 20th monitor chip and nominal 10-minute block, the mandatory signaling window runs from approximately August 8th to August 22nd. A forced lock-in occurs at a height of 963,648, followed by a modern pass activation at 965,664 around September 5th. The actual date will change as the block is generated.
Without widespread support from mining pools, Bitcoin could splinter into competing histories. Nodes enforcing BIP-110 may reject blocks that other nodes accept, leaving exchanges and companies to choose which chains manage deposits, withdrawals, and confirmations.
Mining pools are currently faced with the choice of which chain to send their signals to. Wallet developers will need to review the exposed Taproot and Miniscript paths, and node operators will decide whether to enforce BIP-110.
A permanent split is not inevitable, as miners may adjust, enforcement may remain limited, and economic actors may converge on a single history. Not sending a signal is not a refusal. The version bit indicates visible support, not why the miner was silent.
BIP-110’s temporary rules last for approximately one year after activation, 52,416 blocks, while exempting inputs that consume pre-created UTXOs. igcurrencynews previously covered broader fork risks and the July operator deadline.
While Thaler’s entry has garnered attention, the decisive next signals remain support for identifiable pools, execution options, and specific exchange or wallet readiness plans.
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