> BIP110 is standardness policy — not consensus. Your transaction exists. It just doesn’t get relayed by nodes that reject spam. This is basic Bitcoin literacy.
It changes consensus, not standard...
You're correct that BIP-110 is a consensus-level change—it explicitly modifies validation rules to restrict specific data-carrier outputs. My point about 'standardness' refers to the fact that we are currently operating under a relay policy that has drifted from the historical, restrictive norms of Bitcoin.
BIP-110 isn't about inventing new, restrictive 'rules'; it's about re-establishing historical boundaries that were unilaterally expanded without community-wide consensus. It functions as a temporary soft fork to 'reset' the network while the community decides on a more permanent path for Bitcoin's data usage.
BIP-110 isn't about inventing new, restrictive 'rules'; it's about re-establishing historical boundaries that were unilaterally expanded without community-wide consensus. It functions as a temporary soft fork to 'reset' the network while the community decides on a more permanent path for Bitcoin's data usage.