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Story: Michael Saylor and Adam Back Push Back Hard on BIP-110 as Ordinals Market Slumps

By Steven Anderson

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What BIP-110 Actually Proposes. The proposal wants to change how Ordinals — essentially digital artifacts inscribed on individual…

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Decentralization Is the Real Fight Here. That argument keeps circling back to one word: decentralization.

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Ordinals Market Adds Pressure. The declining Ordinals market makes the whole conversation more complicated.

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Michael Saylor and Adam Back want nothing to do with BIP-110. The two Bitcoin heavyweights have gone public with sharp objections to the proposal, which targets how Bitcoin…

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BIP-110 is basically a technical overhaul aimed at changing the transaction process around Ordinals. The idea, at least on paper, is improvement.

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The proposal wants to change how Ordinals — essentially digital artifacts inscribed on individual satoshis — are processed on the Bitcoin blockchain.

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Proponents probably argue the proposal could spark renewed interest. Critics say that's wishful thinking, and that the risks far outweigh any potential upside.

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The specific mechanics of what BIP-110 changes remain somewhat murky in terms of public documentation. No authors of the proposal have issued an official comment.

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That argument keeps circling back to one word: decentralization. Saylor and Back both say BIP-110 could push Bitcoin toward centralization — a direction they're not willing to…

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And it's not just those two. Broader community voices are raising similar flags. Some developers and users think BIP-110 needs serious modifications before anyone should even…

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What's clear is that the debate has gotten intense. Bitcoin governance debates usually do. The network has no CEO, no board, no single authority to make a call.

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So where does BIP-110 stand? Unclear. Probably in limbo for a while.

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The declining Ordinals market makes the whole conversation more complicated. Two years of shrinking transaction volumes means the ecosystem BIP-110 is trying to address is…

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Neither outcome feels great. And that's kind of where Bitcoin governance debates end up — no clean answers, just tradeoffs.

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