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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 BIP-110 proposal sought to temporarily restrict certain non-financial data on the blockchain, but it instead became a major test of Bitcoin governance. With limited miner backing and sharp criticism from prominent industry voices, the proposal now appears unlikely to move forward.