Bitcoin Improvement Proposal

Simple Mining mined Bitcoin block 961,634 on the main chain without signaling support for BIP-110, even though its pool, Ocean, had backed the proposal by default. The move highlighted the limited hashrate support behind the attempted fork and the growing relevance of miner-level block construction tools.

Michael Saylor is pushing back against Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110, arguing that a temporary clampdown on arbitrary data would undermine Bitcoin’s neutrality. The proposal’s lower miner-signaling threshold and consensus-level restrictions have intensified debate over censorship, fees and the network’s long-term identity.