B.O.P

Why I Am Running BIP-110
A Node Operator's Thesis
March 2026
Introduction
Bitcoin has survived seventeen years of skeptics, forks, hacks, regulatory attacks, and market cycles. It has done so because its architecture was built around one foundational principle: decentralization. Not as an aesthetic choice, but as the mechanism that makes everything else possible, including censorship resistance, immutability, and trustlessness. BIP-110 is my commitment to defending that architecture before a slow, compounding threat normalizes itself into permanence.
1. Bitcoin Is Money, Not a Database
Bitcoin's value as a monetary network derives from properties no other asset has replicated: a fixed supply, censorship resistance, and a decentralized verification layer that no single entity controls. These properties are not incidental, they are the product of careful design and seventeen years of network growth.
Inscriptions and Ordinals are not an extension of that design. They are a hack. The witness discount introduced by SegWit was designed to incentivize moving signature data off-chain and reduce UTXO bloat. It was exploited to stuff arbitrary, non-financial data into the witness field at a subsidized rate, data that has nothing to do with transaction validation and that every node on the network must store permanently.
The argument that Bitcoin needs to compete with Ethereum or support arbitrary smart contracts misunderstands what makes Bitcoin uniquely valuable. Bitcoin does not need to be everything. It needs to be the best at one thing: sound, decentralized, permissionless money.
2. Your Node Is Not a Free Database
This is the core of the argument and it is not complicated. Every full node operator in the world stores a complete copy of the blockchain. That storage is permanent and cumulative. When arbitrary data is embedded on-chain, the cost of storing it is not borne by the person who paid the transaction fee, it is distributed across every node operator, forever, without their consent and without compensation.
The people inserting inscription data pay once. The people running nodes pay indefinitely. That is not a fee market. That is an externality imposed on the infrastructure that makes Bitcoin work.
The long-term trajectory is arithmetic, not speculation. If inscriptions scale, and there is no protocol-level reason they cannot, the cumulative chain size will grow until running a full node transitions from something a person can do on modest hardware to something that requires dedicated infrastructure. Once that threshold is crossed, it does not reverse. The people priced out of node operation do not come back, and the network they exit becomes measurably more centralized with each one who leaves.
3. The Free Market Will Not Save Us in Time
The standard response to node cost concerns is that the fee market will eventually price out spam. This argument fails on both practical and philosophical grounds.
Practically, a solo node operator cannot wait for the market to find equilibrium. Storage costs, bandwidth bills, and hardware requirements are real expenses hitting real people today. Telling them to absorb the cost while the theory proves itself is not a policy, it is an abdication. As Keynes observed in a different context: markets can be wrong longer than a node operator can remain solvent.
The asymmetry is further compounded by irreversibility. Even if the fee market eventually corrects, every byte stored during the correction period is stored permanently. A market equilibrium arriving five years from now does not delete five years of inscription data from every node's storage. The free market argument asks node operators to personally subsidize the experiment while waiting for the outcome.
4. Bitcoin Core Opened the Door Wider
The urgency of BIP-110 cannot be understood without acknowledging what Bitcoin Core's most recent release did. Core v30 raised the OP_RETURN data limit from 80 bytes to 100,000 bytes, a 1,200x increase in the volume of arbitrary data that can be embedded in transactions by default.
The 80 byte limit was not arbitrary. It was deliberate friction, designed to make arbitrary data storage expensive and limited. Its removal was not a neutral technical decision. It was a policy choice that directly expanded the vectors BIP-110 is trying to close, made without meaningful community consensus, and in direct opposition to the concerns of a significant portion of node operators.
The response from Core developers to community dissent, including reports of nodes running scripts to ban connections to Bitcoin Knots nodes, further demonstrates that the governance process cannot be relied upon to address this problem through normal channels. BIP-110 exists because the conventional path was closed.
5. Closing Known Vectors Is Not Perfectionism
Critics of BIP-110 point to demonstrated workarounds, citing developers who have shown that data can still be embedded through alternative methods even if BIP-110 activates. This is offered as a reason not to act.
This argument does not hold. No security measure eliminates every attack vector simultaneously. The standard for intervention has never been perfection, it has been whether the measure meaningfully reduces the attack surface and raises the cost of abuse. BIP-110 closes the cheapest, widest, and most commercially exploited pathways. Determined bad actors will work harder. Industrial-scale inscription protocols will not.
The same logic applies to the most serious abuse case: arbitrary data embedding has historically been used to store illegal material including CSAM, not at scale on BTC, but the vector exists and has been exploited. Core v30's 1,200x expansion of the OP_RETURN limit dramatically widens that attack surface going forward. The legal exposure for node operators remains debated, as most legal analysis suggests automated relaying does not satisfy the knowing possession standard required for criminal liability, but node operators never consented to absorbing that risk at any level, and expanding the vector without community consensus makes that imposition worse. Leaving a known abuse pathway wide open because the legal exposure is merely contested rather than proven is not a principled position. It is inaction dressed as caution.
6. Miner Incentives Are Structurally Compromised
Post-halving, as block rewards shrink, miners are becoming increasingly dependent on fee revenue from inscription and Ordinals activity to remain solvent. Their financial interests are structurally diverging from those of node operators and long-term holders in a way that was not true in Bitcoin's early years.
This is not a criticism of individual miners. It is a description of an incentive structure that produces predictable behavior. Asking a miner operating at the edge of profitability to signal for BIP-110 and potentially reduce their fee revenue is not a governance question for them, it is an existential one. The low 55% activation threshold in BIP-110 is a direct acknowledgment that the conventional 95% threshold effectively gives financially captured miners a permanent veto over network hygiene.
Bitcoin has a seventeen-year track record of confounding predictions that miner incentives would break the network. The combination of price appreciation, hardware efficiency gains, and energy cost optimization has absorbed every halving cycle. That history argues for confidence in Bitcoin's long-term resilience, but it does not argue for allowing a dependency on inscription revenue to deepen indefinitely while the structural problem compounds.
7. The Momentum Is Real
Node signaling for BIP-110 has grown from under 3% in January 2026 to approximately 8.9% as of mid-March, nearly tripling in under two months. With Bitcoin Knots nodes representing approximately 22% of the total network and BIP-110 having captured roughly 40% of that population already, the trajectory toward 20%+ node signaling before September is plausible.
This matters because the 2017 SegWit activation demonstrated that sustained UASF node pressure can shift miner behavior even when financial incentives initially point the other way. Miners ultimately need economically significant nodes to accept their blocks and cash out coinbase rewards. A node signaling movement that reaches critical mass creates real economic pressure regardless of what any individual miner prefers.
Conclusion
Running BIP-110 is not a statement that Bitcoin's governance process is broken beyond repair, or that the 55% activation threshold sets a precedent I am entirely comfortable with, or that every technical objection to the proposal is without merit.
It is a statement that the node cost problem is real, compounding, and partially irreversible. That the free market and conventional governance channels have demonstrated they will not address it in time. That closing known spam vectors, even imperfectly, is better than leaving them open while debating the perfect solution. And that the decentralization Bitcoin was built to protect is worth defending with imperfect tools rather than surrendering with perfect arguments.
Seventeen years of network growth have been built on the backs of ordinary people willing to run nodes. That is worth protecting.
— Satoshi Nakamoto, March 2026

2025-09-12 01:24:15 UTC

Running #Knots
https://video.nostr.build/9b003409e569a346745d2b5dcab678fe335825228b538e9d61d6ee464cd1f68f.mp4

2025-02-26 20:18:49 UTC

Boom #note1xmx…5sx7

2025-02-21 02:37:06 UTC

Holy shit! A 67.5% increase month over month in M1 money supply. 😳😮 #note13pk…cpvw

2025-02-20 03:18:20 UTC

Everyone could get behind this name change but nobody is brave enough to implement it https://image.nostr.build/7f1fbdb35453554063d4bf55bbc0fa3c1c29e47b12959c7ab9303e542fa100c3.jpg

2025-02-20 01:06:14 UTC

lol Plan B selling all of his bitcoin for ETFs was not on my bingo card for this year 🤣🤡

2025-01-26 15:28:40 UTC

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Noticing the login asks for your NSEC and password. Isn’t the NSEC the password?

2025-01-20 22:52:41 UTC

#FreeRoss day one anyone hear any updates?

2025-01-11 15:29:17 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/5cedf999745f6e4b6323bf000820cf58b885bf189aaeaebdc1e6399ca4449a08.jpg

2025-01-11 04:57:08 UTC

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Proof of mfin work

2025-01-05 22:35:56 UTC

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“If it’s long term, MSTR will outperform it” I heavily challenge this.
What is the future supply of MSTR issuance 100 years from now, I’m curious? What does MSTRs board look like in 10 years? What happens if the US government goes full dictatorship and confiscates all coins on coinbase being held for Blackrock MSTR, etc? You don’t know these things.
I’m glad your fiat denominated returns have outperformed bitcoin but there are many more certainties with holding bitcoin than there are with holding MSTR. Nothing wrong with that, but you can’t for certain say it will always outperform BTC.

2024-12-25 21:33:13 UTC

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2-3 cycles away imo

2024-11-30 15:47:35 UTC

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It is good money, and it is fungible. The blockchain doesn’t care. 1 Btc= 1 btc

2024-11-29 21:31:39 UTC

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You spend it P2P or buy gift cards? I’m genuinely curious because most places won’t accept it, even more so than bitcoin. I’ve seen a lot of signs saying “we accept bitcoin” but never monero.

2024-11-08 19:11:44 UTC

Remember where you came from, what adversity you had to overcome to get here, how many people told you that you were stupid, you didn’t care, you front ran them all #bitcoin

2024-11-03 16:00:05 UTC

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Looks like this was tweeted in 2020 but amazing that someone could publically be so dumb

2024-10-21 20:24:42 UTC

👀 https://image.nostr.build/1fde45fdb7d42382fe26caef1ce6356770668aff94e90aaf2fa2a80fa0c23f93.jpg

2024-10-19 18:07:54 UTC

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More and more people are waking up to this. Imagine a world where we all worked together towards “advancing humanity” rather than “advancing our country”

2024-10-19 14:48:46 UTC

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Trading Bitcoin is the quickest way to lose your Bitcoin this goes for seasoned vets as well

2024-10-17 13:17:26 UTC

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Is the spray foam going to save you more on your electric bill? What is the break down? Otherwise I would just do it myself

2024-10-16 20:09:00 UTC

Every cycle has FUD. This time we have to hear people that don’t even understand quantum computers to explain why Bitcoin is going to fail

2024-09-24 02:28:50 UTC

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it really depends on the type of group you’re creating. They all have their benefits for specific types of groups.

2024-09-21 14:28:28 UTC

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Absolute tank running at that pace for that long good for you

2024-09-17 13:56:18 UTC

NPCs gonna love this one
https://m.primal.net/Ksmb.mov
https://m.primal.net/Ksma.jpg

2024-09-08 19:02:25 UTC

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Good thing this is nostr and I can post absolutely terrible memes here with no repercussions 🤣

2024-09-08 18:56:44 UTC

Hope everyone is having a nice Sunday! https://image.nostr.build/1c7fdaab9de94fce3c5b0bfd0a677eb71a69e39b36236334e2c3e44fe17cf258.jpg

2024-09-07 14:12:40 UTC

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If she wins there will likely be a civil war/civil unrest which will accelerate us towards eradicating our corrupt government. If Trump wins we might have 4 decent years ahead kicking the can down the road. It’s all going to lead us to realizing we need to replace the communist system we’ve put into government

2024-09-04 21:55:16 UTC

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Also love to see the Attack on Titan background 🥷👊🏻

2024-09-03 20:53:16 UTC

Anyone else love sardines? 🐟 https://image.nostr.build/42675a5347a23d132778624771df8ec7c463076fb409cea1cb3dc59208589258.jpg

2024-09-02 21:07:09 UTC

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Dua lipa?

2024-09-02 16:00:40 UTC

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But in all seriousness, it starts with a tax for only the rich and then becomes an everyone tax

2024-09-02 15:59:25 UTC

#meme https://image.nostr.build/5ac3ed6ce0f40a774b456f3a0262663abba604915d6cbfec11d1fe28372cacec.jpg

2024-08-29 20:43:53 UTC

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What is the point of using Alby if you are running your own lightning node and connect directly to Zeus?

2024-08-27 16:21:16 UTC

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Moral of the story: Zuck is a cuck

2024-08-22 02:30:54 UTC

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Idk paranoid I guess. But there should be a better way like NWC or NSEC extension

2024-08-19 21:01:42 UTC

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Feel better ser🫡

2024-08-16 16:15:03 UTC

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Shhh they don’t want you to realize that sexual contact is how kids are getting it

2024-08-09 22:51:21 UTC

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GFY 🫂

2024-08-09 02:58:36 UTC

I say it every time but BITCOIN MEET UPS REJUVINATE THE SOUL

2024-08-08 21:15:32 UTC

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This is absolutely insane

2024-08-08 13:49:25 UTC

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They have changed the data retroactively to look better than it is almost every month this year. Clearly hiding the recession signal and propping up the market until the crash suits them.

2024-08-07 23:00:22 UTC

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Lmaooooo that’s wild.

2024-08-01 01:35:55 UTC

YES. #note1han…aela

2024-07-31 19:17:26 UTC

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That’s really interesting. Something though that can be said is that these patients likely have gone their entire lives eating candy which created insulin resistance. At this point any form of sugar is dangerous because your body can’t properly react to it. People in jungles that eat fruit and meat are as skinny as can be and have very low rates of diabetes. I believe talking about these nutrition issues are first step to us all understanding the problem so I appreciate your input here

2024-07-31 14:53:58 UTC

I can instinctively tell based on what I’m seeing at my fiat job that the economy is slowing. Fed will likely keep rates the same until a crash happens, and then they can come in to save the day after they created the crisis.

2024-07-29 17:28:02 UTC

I hope the US federal govt sells all of its corn

2024-07-26 14:38:22 UTC

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#note1dv5…auwy

2024-07-25 02:51:23 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/ece4a22c22ccf5144d430ac99fdede153ea12f132bb3cfa9b68ee2b2deafc058.jpg

2024-07-23 02:29:16 UTC

#bitcoin is neutral #note164a…6flc

2024-07-18 19:02:49 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/6e71c5d3b569420676288dad8c0e1f05720fcc61fa211790df0060d49cc69a49.jpg #note1r45…84l8

2024-07-16 20:29:05 UTC

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lol what does this even mean

2024-07-01 17:35:42 UTC

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Zero sats, just metal trinkets

2024-05-05 18:30:01 UTC

Antpool and Foundry make up 52% of the hash 🤮

2024-04-26 02:09:19 UTC

It’s not an accident the US govt is attacking Bitcoin soon after the halving. This was a planned attack similar to how China waited for Bitcoin to be in a parabolic run to announce mining is illegal.

2024-04-14 01:51:57 UTC

“Grampa how were the pre-bitcoinization 2020s?” https://video.nostr.build/0ca10581bffeb81aa8d872e71f89225cbb36a941cdcefdc717c3ee3a9f2f2902.mp4

2024-01-26 20:31:15 UTC

So “the merge” wasn’t good enough, now mETH heads want the new hard fork “Dencun” to reduce fees on the network in March. 🤣🤦🏻
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/01/25/ethereum-developers-set-timeline-for-final-dencun-testnet-upgrades/amp/

2024-01-19 20:58:38 UTC

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Hell ya brother 😆 those are some good ones. Great trade.

2024-01-14 04:05:11 UTC

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Share the link

2023-12-21 16:17:11 UTC

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Like WTAF? SAME
I don’t care who they hire, their skin color, I’m not going to hit on my coworkers like a creep, all of this should be common knowledge

2023-12-21 04:47:02 UTC

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Go to their site and get on the TestFlight

2023-12-20 14:03:57 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/1eb080c8a31b7c14baee581e4b1beca4616ccc81210cfe3ac1e41debdde3eb8a.jpg

2023-12-17 19:52:22 UTC

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It’s a saying of endearment

2023-12-16 15:03:32 UTC

Going to a Family Xmas party later, gonna try orange pilling some family members wish me luck 🫡

2023-12-11 14:42:08 UTC

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This is fucking wild

2023-12-11 03:42:22 UTC

https://video.nostr.build/6f63ecc1184b11efc33421237b727061de3ee6883e9112149c720d17472c0b75.mp4

2023-12-10 03:38:27 UTC

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There’s no reason for changing the base chain and making storage cost higher for node runners. Put bells and whistles on L2. Or try your luck with a hard fork

2023-12-06 23:32:15 UTC

Just realized I’ve been on NOSTR for 10 months now 🤯 time flies when you’re having fun shitposting with friends
Love y’all 🧡❤️💜
#grownostr #NOSTR

2023-12-06 14:09:21 UTC

… but count on us here at CNN to tell you what you should count on https://image.nostr.build/aaba69841dab390c110d23ce1998c3f1ddd3f66c795e241705b241c766e2c9da.jpg

2023-12-05 18:50:48 UTC

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Eh I don’t fully agree with this line of thinking. Sounds very similar to tether fud which has been disproven over and over again. Just because someone has a money printer and BTC can pair with it doesn’t mean it’s “manipulated” by it. First of all there always needs to be a buyer and seller on both sides. You can sell shit for gold for a little while until people realize that shit stinks.

2023-12-05 15:44:00 UTC

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One of my favorite parts of the Bitcoin Standard was when this was talked about :)

2023-12-03 17:10:00 UTC

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“Your allotted carbon emissions for today have been reached, please pull over to a rest station and wait 24 hours for more credits”
God I hate them so much

2023-12-03 02:09:18 UTC

This is so wild 🤣 imagine if your currency was so weak it couldn’t handle an ETF release? #note1upq…ka75

2023-12-01 16:46:13 UTC

This is the leader of the “free world” blaming corporations for being greedy and not knocking prices down. Seems like a set up to start price fixing/controls. Which inevitably create shortages and then revolution typically follows as people can’t feed their families.
Maybe stop the money printer Joe and cut government spending. https://image.nostr.build/dc1d35fd9b70a3c7dfe7d68e03302b2c0490c3e9d2d29796b98ad31d03a618a6.jpg

2023-11-30 16:07:43 UTC

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If monero was increasing in purchasing power against bitcoin *maybe* you can make that argument that this is the take of the free market. It’s lost purchasing power every year since inception against Bitcoin in an exponential downtrend

2023-11-30 14:25:45 UTC

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True, the biggest risk factor is ourselves thinking new bells and whistles are needed and then later realizing the unintended consequences of that

2023-11-29 05:20:00 UTC

I won’t “sell” for fiat even if it hit $100k, 200k, etc.
#BTC is my unit of account. I’m not going back to funny money clown world and Im ready to die on this hill

2023-11-26 04:27:31 UTC

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@npub1xnf…lpr5 is better. The node is in your phone. Get off custodial solutions

2023-11-26 01:57:44 UTC

How we feeling that 93%+ of all Bitcoin is in circulation and the max monetary inflation that will ever happen is the other <7%
https://media.tenor.com/3eIvVsG3yPYAAAAC/the-universe-tim-and-eric-mind-blown.gif

2023-11-26 00:41:54 UTC

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New bitcoiner on the way https://media.tenor.com/B3MB1nUlQ7kAAAAC/snoopy-hug.gif
#note154n…nfn9

2023-11-23 03:54:34 UTC

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Buy an S9 on kaboomracks for $100

2023-11-22 11:44:57 UTC

If you hold majority of your wealth in Bitcoin you better start getting to the hash battlegrounds and spinning up some home miners. This is war. #note1zpd…adrn

2023-11-21 17:08:06 UTC

Heard a family member say “CBDCs will be the end of crime”
I almost spit out my drink 🤮

2023-11-19 05:50:34 UTC

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Boooooo

2023-11-16 14:09:52 UTC

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Absolutely. The new lambos can be shut off remotely by your government. Can’t shut off the wind

2023-11-15 20:49:21 UTC

Coincidentally this “predicted solar storm” is going to directly hit earth out of all places in the solar system exactly when our government wants more control this next election cycle. https://image.nostr.build/684b6e407badb73cadb4330e067d24d8805c31bef7bb310a59cab6c9d7df3343.jpg

2023-11-15 20:00:46 UTC

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I would WAY rather be paid to view an ad than be the product on Twitter where Twitter gets paid for my mind share

2023-11-10 19:33:45 UTC

Clowns like this are driving the conversation with the normies
“Daddy blackrock is going to make us so fiat rich! Don’t miss out!” https://image.nostr.build/9e20c58132e96bfbe401236311a323ea806c4f9d4543c98dd7564a60942670a5.jpg

2023-11-10 17:08:57 UTC

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That’s very interesting I was just looking at buying the bolt ring and it’s so expensive!
How does this work on the backend , is this able to connect to my Lightning node?

2023-11-09 15:56:18 UTC

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Exactly. If I had the chance to talk to him I’d tell him to short it and stfu about it already if he’s so sure

2023-11-09 00:49:30 UTC

The church is now affirming transgenderism an actual psychological disorder.
We live in a clown world. https://image.nostr.build/4eaaccf6db9fd418c3130c230c90dbd1dffdd353dcb18acdaafbe2b1c9ad6965.jpg

2023-11-04 20:04:21 UTC

Shit coins have another 50-70% drop from here still in the cards imo. There hasn’t been real sustained pain for many of these 2021 altcoins. We’ll need this to create the next wave of bitcoiners.

2023-11-02 17:47:02 UTC

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Literally how shitcoiners think it’s sad.

2023-11-02 14:37:21 UTC

Nocoiner/shitcoiner logic: “SaToShI Is gOInG tO RuG yoU BitcoInErs ANd DuMp a MillIoN cOins on you”
Really? The guy that did everything in his power to make distribution as fair as possible?
The guy that stated:
“Lost coins only make everyone else’s worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone”
Right….

2023-11-01 20:10:53 UTC

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Ooooooooof

2023-10-30 13:03:59 UTC

Now one can argue wars are funding fiat 🫡 #note1ygq…75wh

2023-10-28 14:18:05 UTC

GM #hashrate is screaming https://image.nostr.build/7519afa9b439327435e3b616303e308a63e34391f7b48f986a4da7283717822b.jpg

2023-10-25 03:38:42 UTC

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Lmao clown shit

2023-10-24 03:09:58 UTC

After a day of using Zeuspay I feel so much less dirty than when I used WoS. Something about it @npub1xnf…lpr5