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BIP-110 forced signaling is set to begin around Aug. 8

BIP-110 forced signaling is set to begin around Aug. 8

As miner support stays near 1%, critics including Adam Back and PlanB oppose the temporary Bitcoin soft-fork proposal to restrict inscriptions, runes and other non-payment data before an August 7-8 signaling deadline.

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Fact Check
Every element of the claim is corroborated. The odaily/Bitcoin News source confirms forced signaling begins around Aug 8. BeInCrypto and CoinDesk confirm the early-August deadline and minimal miner support (near zero, 0.31%-1% per various sources, consistent with 'near 1%'). BeInCrypto confirms Adam Back's opposition and PANews confirms PlanB's explicit opposition (July 25, 2026). BGeometrics confirms the soft fork temporarily restricts inscriptions/Ordinals, runes and other non-payment data. The Aug 7-8 signaling deadline aligns with the reported early-August timing.
Summary

BIP-110’s forced signaling window is expected to open around Aug. 7-8, 2026 as debate intensifies over a proposal that would temporarily add seven consensus limits for about one year to restrict non-financial or non-payment data on Bitcoin, including inscriptions, runes and other content often associated with Ordinals. Support remains limited at about 1% of miner signaling, far below the 55% threshold needed for activation, while Blockstream CEO Adam Back and analyst PlanB have both opposed the measure, though for different reasons. Back rejected a “flip the bit” campaign to test support, saying the proposal simply expires without majority backing and does not threaten Bitcoin’s main chain, while Start9 has argued that signaling would be low-cost reconnaissance that could reduce uncertainty around fork risk, Lightning Network exposure and fee-paying user demand.

Terms & Concepts
  • BIP-110: A proposed Bitcoin protocol change that would temporarily add consensus limits to restrict non-payment data on the network if activated.
  • soft fork: A backward-compatible change to blockchain network rules.
  • Ordinals: Image, text or other data embedded in Bitcoin transactions, a practice critics say adds non-financial content to the chain.