Michael Saylor says Bitcoin fees near 1 sat/vB show no spam problem

Michael Saylor said Bitcoin has not developed a so-called spam problem despite a decade of concerns over block space scarcity and non-monetary uses of the network, arguing in an X post that fees near 1 sat/vB, or roughly $0.30, show the market continues to manage on-chain demand. The post, which included a Clark Moody’s Bitcoin Dashboard screenshot and had more than 1,100 reposts, 7,700 likes, over 757,000 impressions and 938 replies as of Jul. 9, 2026, quickly became a flashpoint in the intensifying debate over BIP-110. The proposed soft fork, also called the Reduced Data Temporary Soft Fork, is scheduled to begin rolling out in August and is designed to curb what supporters describe as spam by blocking Ordinals inscriptions, BRC20 tokens, certain Taproot-based transfers and most arbitrary data. While Saylor did not mention the proposal directly, his remarks were widely interpreted as opposing BIP-110-style intervention in favor of the fee market, and a Grok analysis of more than 50 responses found about 65% were negative, 25% supportive and 10% neutral.