Bitcoin Core

More than three dozen bitcoin and crypto companies are pressing major AI labs to provide early access to powerful models for open-source security work. The firms argue that safety filters and closed trusted-partner programs are slowing defenders while attackers face fewer limits.

Bitcoin’s BIP-110 proposal is moving toward a key activation window despite negligible public miner signaling. The user-activated soft fork debate is becoming a broader test of who coordinates Bitcoin rule changes: miners, nodes, exchanges, or users.

DOG Mode, an alternative Bitcoin client associated with developer Leonidas, targets default relay policies rather than Bitcoin consensus rules. The debate has revived questions over Ordinals, censorship, fee markets, mempool fragmentation and who ultimately decides what the network should carry.

A proposed open-source Bitcoin client known as DOG Mode aims to loosen relay policies for large transactions and tiny outputs without changing consensus rules. The initiative arrives as BIP 110, a proposal to restrict arbitrary data on Bitcoin, shows virtually no miner support.

Bitcoin’s controversial BIP 110 proposal is approaching an early August deadline with miner support at zero in the current signaling period. The plan seeks to restrict arbitrary data on Bitcoin for one year, but prominent critics argue it could turn a spam dispute into a damaging consensus battle.