Bitcoin Developer Readies Emergency Code as BIP-110 Faces Miner Opposition

BitcoinWorld Bitcoin Developer Readies Emergency Code as BIP-110 Faces Miner Opposition As the Bitcoin network debates the fate of BIP-110, a proposal aimed at curbing non-monetary data on the blockchain, developer Chris Guida has taken proactive steps to prepare a contingency plan.

Guida has reworked the 2017 proof-of-work (PoW) change code to be compatible with the latest version of Bitcoin Knots, a full-node implementation, according to Bitcoin News.

This move is designed as a fallback if major mining pools do not support the soft fork, ensuring that the network can still enforce the intended changes.

Background: The BIP-110 Proposal BIP-110, short for Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110, seeks to reduce the amount of data that can be stored in Bitcoin transactions.