Bitcoin Maxi Warns BIP-110 Failure Could Mean the End of Permissionless Money
The post Bitcoin Maxi Warns BIP-110 Failure Could Mean the End of Permissionless Money appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. BIP-110 has become a symbolic battle over Bitcoin’s future direction, from censorship resistance to network governance. Bitcoin maximalist Justin Bechler has warned that the failure of BIP-110 would leave BTC permanently under the control of what he called a “fiat funding apparatus.” He also argued that the network would lose its role as permissionless, censorship-resistant money. BIP-110 Is Bitcoin’s “Line in the Sand” With debate over the proposed soft fork continuing to divide members of the Bitcoin community, Bechler took to X, writing a lengthy post titled “My Plan for the Death of Bitcoin,” where he framed BIP-110 as a direct response to what he called catastrophic spam abuse that BTC’s network has suffered since February 2023, worsened after Core v.30 removed limits on OP-RETURN data. According to him, Bitcoin’s defining feature is that anyone can run a n