According to ChainCatcher, BIP-110 supporter Dathon Ohm has said that forced signaling for BIP-110 is expected to begin in roughly 290 blocks, or about 48 hours from now. At that point, miners must include a signal in their blocks to indicate they are prepared for BIP-110. Blocks that fail to do so could be considered invalid and subsequently dropped from the chain. Ohm also recommended that miners and users upgrade to Bitcoin Knots, adding that continuing to run Bitcoin Core after forced signaling begins would pose a security risk. BIP-110 is a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal aimed at restricting, at the consensus level, the size and manner in which arbitrary data can be embedded in Bitcoin transactions. The proposal’s main targets include Ordinals inscriptions, BRC-20 tokens, Runes, large OP_RETURN payloads, and certain Taproot constructions used for data storage. The goal is to ease the burden that blockchain “junk data” places on node storage and bandwidth.
BIP-110 supporter Dathon Ohm has said that forced signaling for the proposal is scheduled to start in about 290 blocks, which works out to roughly 48 hours. Once it begins, miners will need to signal their readiness for BIP-110 in the blocks they produce. Any block lacking the required signal could be deemed invalid and dropped by the network.
Ohm’s guidance went beyond the timeline. He urged miners and users to move to Bitcoin Knots, and warned that continuing to operate Bitcoin Core after forced signaling is switched on carries a security risk.
BIP-110 is a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal focused on limiting, at the consensus layer, the size and method of arbitrary data embedded in Bitcoin transactions. Its stated targets are Ordinals inscriptions, BRC-20 tokens, Runes, large OP_RETURN payloads, and certain Taproot constructs used for data storage, all of which add to what the proposal’s supporters describe as blockchain junk data. Reducing that data is meant to lessen the load on node storage and bandwidth.
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