Gate News, March 16 — Discussions around Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 110 continue to intensify. Bitcoin pioneer and Blockstream co-founder Adam Back retweeted a reminder to the community about the risk that Bitcoin upgrade capabilities could be suppressed. Although the proposal is described as a temporary soft fork to clean up “junk data” on the chain, aiming to curb on-chain data bloat caused by protocols like Ordinals, its design is controversial. BIP-110 would disable the OP_SUCCESS opcode in Tapscript, which is considered an important reserved mechanism for future soft fork upgrades of Bitcoin. Additionally, the proposal would limit the Taproot control block size to 257 bytes, potentially impacting the development of Layer 2 technologies like BitVM that rely on extensive script execution. While BIP-110 is positioned as a “temporary measure,” Bitcoin soft fork upgrades typically require years of coordination, and restricting upgrade interfaces during this period could have long-term consequences.
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