{"id":199873,"date":"2026-07-17T15:58:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=199873"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:58:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:58:36","slug":"bitcoin-mining-giant-foundry-asks-miners-to-vote-on-bip-110-soft-fork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=199873","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Mining Giant Foundry Asks Miners To Vote on BIP-110 Soft Fork"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

Bitcoin Mining Giant Foundry Asks Miners To Vote on BIP-110 Soft Fork<\/a><\/p>\n

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Foundry Digital, the world\u2019s leading Bitcoin mining pool operator, has said it will allow mining clients how the pool should signal on the BIP-110.<\/p>\n

The Rochester, New York-based firm said Friday in an email to miners that they will be able to vote by using their hashrate \u2014 literally computing power \u2014 to vote either for or against the proposal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BIP-110, or the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110, is a proposal<\/a> aimed at temporarily restricting spam on the blockchain. If it goes through, a soft fork \u2014 a backward-compatible rule change \u2014 would take effect, restricting the amount of non-monetary data on the network.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs miners, it\u2019s important for you to have a voice and participate in the governance of the network,\u201d Foundry<\/a> said in its announcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of the more actively debated proposals in Bitcoin right now, and miners play a direct role in whether it activates,\u201d the company added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Also known as the \u201creduced data temporary soft fork,\u201d the proposal would cap the amount of arbitrary, non-monetary data that transactions can carry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Its rules limit<\/a> most new outputs to 34 bytes, restore an 83-byte limit on OP_RETURN outputs, and reject data pushes above 256 bytes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those for the proposal say that the soft fork would allow Bitcoin to function as pure peer-to-peer money.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But opponents, including<\/a> Strategy founder Michael Saylor and Blockstream co-founder Adam Back, argue it converts a policy dispute into a consensus change that could invalidate fee-paying transactions.<\/p>\n

Foundry\u2019s process<\/h2>\n

Under Foundry\u2019s process, each vote carries weight based on an account\u2019s average 10-day hashrate on the pool between July 6 and July 15. Foundry said it will signal based on the majority of hashrate-weighted votes across the signaling period, which it expects to run through early August at block 961,632.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s starting position is no. It said that until \u201cYes\u201d votes cross 51% of voting hashrate, Foundry signals \u201cNo\u201d with all of its blocks. A crossing of that threshold switches the pool to \u201cYes\u201d with all of its blocks.<\/p>\n

Foundry controls about a third of network hashrate, a share that makes its position consequential for the outcome. Analysts at BGeometrics identified<\/a> decisions by Foundry and Antpool as capable of moving daily signaling into a meaningful range. A mandatory signaling window near block 961,632, projected for early August, will force the question before the activation timeline closes.<\/p>\n

Accounts that do not respond count as \u201cNo\u201d votes. Foundry said owners can change their choice while the window remains open, and that individual votes stay confidential, though aggregate results may be shared.<\/p>\n

This post Bitcoin Mining Giant Foundry Asks Miners To Vote on BIP-110 Soft Fork<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Mathew Di Salvo\u00a0and\u00a0Micah Zimmerman<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Mining Giant Foundry Asks Miners To Vote on BIP-110 Soft Fork Foundry Digital, the world\u2019s leading Bitcoin mining pool operator, has said it will allow mining clients how the pool should signal on the BIP-110. The Rochester, New York-based firm said Friday in an email to miners that they will be able […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":199874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}