Saylor and Back Push Back Hard on BIP-110 Ordinals Proposal
Bitcoin heavyweights Michael Saylor and Adam Back are publicly opposing BIP-110, a proposal targeting Ordinals, even as Ordinals activity has faded.
Two of Bitcoin's loudest voices are drawing a line in the sand. Michael Saylor and Adam Back — a MicroStrategy titan and a cypherpunk legend, respectively — are both slamming BIP-110, a proposal that would effectively constrain Ordinals-based activity on the Bitcoin network. Their opposition signals that this debate is far from a fringe conversation.
The timing is worth noting. Ordinals transaction volume has been in a broad slump for roughly two years now. You'd think a dying trend wouldn't need this much political firepower to defend it. But Saylor and Back aren't just fighting for JPEGs — they're fighting a principle: that Bitcoin's base layer should remain open and unconstrained by top-down protocol changes designed to exclude specific use cases.
Read more Altman Calls Out Musk Over Space-Datacenter Hype as SPCX Slumps →
BIP-110, for those just tuning in, is a technical proposal aimed squarely at the Ordinals ecosystem. Critics of Ordinals have long argued that inscriptions bloat the blockchain and crowd out financial transactions. Supporters fire back that permissionless innovation is exactly what makes Bitcoin valuable in the first place — and that selectively banning data types sets a dangerous precedent.
From a trader's perspective, this matters. Any serious protocol-level fight injects uncertainty into Bitcoin's development roadmap, and uncertainty is never your friend when you're sizing a position. Watch how the broader developer community responds — if BIP-110 gains traction despite this high-profile pushback, you could see ripple effects across the Ordinals and Bitcoin NFT space.
Continue reading at Cointelegraph
