Saylor Warns BIP-110 Protocol Change Could Harm Bitcoin From Within

Michael Saylor, co-founder of Strategy, declared that Bitcoin (BTC) has secured its place as global digital capital — but warned that misguided protocol changes, specifically those tied to BIP-110, represent the most dangerous self-inflicted threat the network now faces.

BIP-110 Protocol Dispute

Saylor posted on X on Apr. 4 that BTC price action is now shaped by institutional capital flows, not halving cycles. He called the traditional four-year cycle "dead" and said bank lending and digital credit will determine Bitcoin's future trajectory.

His sharpest comment, though, targeted development risks.

Saylor described "bad ideas driving iatrogenic protocol changes" as the single greatest danger to Bitcoin — borrowing a medical term that means harm caused by treatment itself.

That remark pointed directly at BIP-110.

The proposal, introduced by developer Dathon Ohm and supported by the Bitcoin Knots team, seeks a temporary one-year soft fork that would restrict non-monetary data in Bitcoin transactions. It targets Ordinals inscriptions, BRC-20 tokens and large OP_RETURN payloads that critics say bloat the blockchain and raise costs for node operators.

The first block signaling support for BIP-110 was mined by the Ocean pool in Mar. 2026. The proposal sets a 55% hash power activation threshold — well below the 95% consensus standard traditionally used for Bitcoin upgrades.