Strategy founder Michael Saylor told his X followers that Bitcoin "still has no spam problem," pushing back against the blockspace fears driving the BIP-110 debate. His post drew a mostly negative reaction, with Grok's read of the replies running roughly 65% against him.
Michael Saylor stepped into one of Bitcoin's sharpest governance fights this week, telling his followers on X that the network still has no spam problem. The Strategy founder pointed to fees of 1 satoshi per vByte, arguing anyone can move any amount globally for about $0.30. He credited the free market with solving Bitcoin's blockspace challenges.
A soft fork over blockchain data
Saylor never named BIP-110, but the timing left little doubt. The proposed soft fork, formally the "Reduced Data Temporary Soft Fork," is scheduled for an August rollout and would limit non-monetary data on the chain. Readers took his remarks as a stand against those restrictions, and the community read them exactly that way.
The reaction split the room. Leonidas, the creator of Ord.io, called it "Another massive L for BIP-110." Others, particularly developers who run their own nodes, pushed the opposite way, arguing operators still have to store the spam and that this makes running a node harder.
The numbers behind the backlash
The post itself became the story. It gathered 938 replies, more than 1,100 reposts and 7,700 likes, alongside 757,000 impressions. When Grok analyzed more than 50 of the responses, it found roughly 65% negative, 25% supportive and 10% neutral.
That split maps onto a deeper disagreement over what Bitcoin is for. One camp treats it strictly as a monetary network and backs BIP-110; the other defends free-market use of blockspace. Saylor's post lands him on the second side.
Source: Bitcoin.com News
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