Bitcoin News
By Sakamoto Nashi
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What BIP-110 Actually Is. BIP-110 started life as BIP-444. Bitcoin developer Dathon Ohm introduced it as a proposal to limit…
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The Moderation Fight Has Deep Roots. r/Bitcoin's moderation style didn't appear out of nowhere.
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Bitcoin Mechanic, the Knots developer known online as GrassFedBitcoin, got permanently banned from r/Bitcoin after posting two sentences about miners signaling BIP-110.
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The post itself was pretty minimal. Bitcoin Mechanic wrote about seven blocks in a recent difficulty period that had flipped version bit 4, which is the signal miners use to…
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Reddit moderator BashCo pushed back on the surprise angle, basically saying the rules are the rules and the outcome was predictable.
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BIP-110 started life as BIP-444. Bitcoin developer Dathon Ohm introduced it as a proposal to limit non-transactional data in OP_RETURN outputs.
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The OP_RETURN debate isn't new. It's been grinding through the Bitcoin community for a while, touching on fundamental questions about what the blockchain is actually for.
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Version bit 4 flipping in seven blocks during a single difficulty period is a miner signaling mechanism.
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r/Bitcoin's moderation style didn't appear out of nowhere. The subreddit has an unofficial policy against mentioning Knots and BIP-110 at all, which Bitcoin Mechanic acknowledged.
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To the moderators, any post supporting an unactivated fork reads as promotion of a minority proposal — exactly the kind of thing the rules are designed to keep out.
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The ban landed hard enough that 40,000 people watched a reaction video about it. That's not nothing.
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What's clear is that BIP-110 has real support in at least part of the mining community, given the version bit signals, and that the Knots camp isn't going quiet.
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The broader governance problem here is genuinely hard. Bitcoin's decentralized structure means there's no central authority to settle these disputes.
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