Поддержка софтфорка BIP-110: Меньше 3% узлов биткоина готовы к изменениям Translation: Support for the BIP-110 soft fork: Less than 3% of Bitcoin nodes are ready for changes

The proposal seeks to limit the volume of data transmitted to combat spam in the network.

As of January 25, 729 out of 24,482 (~3%) nodes in the Bitcoin blockchain indicated their support for the soft fork under BIP-110. This initiative aims to address spam.

Proposed in early December 2025, the proposal introduces a temporary limit at the consensus level on the size of data transmitted within transactions. Led by the Bitcoin Knots team, this initiative is designed for a one-year duration and will include revisions or adjustments based on community feedback.

For the soft fork to be approved, it requires the backing of 55% of validators. So far, none of the 20 largest mining pools have shown interest.

The authors of BIP-110, which includes Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dash Jr., argue that arbitrary data embedding places an additional burden on node operators and diverts resources from the «true mission» of the first cryptocurrency — improving the financial system.

The proposal outlines the following key changes:

«All known use cases of [Bitcoin] will remain fully functional and unaffected,» claim the authors.

Disputes within the community regarding transaction size limitations escalated since last fall, when an ambiguous update to Bitcoin Core v30 was implemented. This update raised the OP_RETURN limit from 80 to 100,000 bytes.

Critics contend that the increasing hardware demands on nodes resulting from spam undermine the protocol’s attractiveness as a decentralized monetary network. Bitcoin advocate and researcher Matthew Crater stated:

«It’s like one of those parasitic plants like ivy, which completely covers a tree, consuming it and destroying its internal structure. The ivy itself also dies. That’s what spam can do to Bitcoin.»

As a reminder, in October, Bitcoin developer known as dathonohm also introduced BIP-444, which proposes to temporarily limit the ability to add arbitrary data to the blockchain to reduce the risk of hosting illegal content.