Bitcoin Improvement Proposal
The
Activation
of BIP-110
What happens when miners must choose — and real money is on the line.
The moment
Aug 8, ~6pm PST
Block
961,632
Every miner faces a binary choice.
The choice
Flip bit 4
— or don't.

Signal ✓

Your block is accepted by BIP-110 miners. You're in the coalition.

Don't signal

Your block is not accepted by BIP-110 miners. You're outside it.

The window
Blocks 962,632 → 963,647
2,016
blocks to signal — roughly two weeks
Real money at stake
$397M
block rewards for those 2,016 blocks
at $63,000 per BTC
With fees: $429 million. The signaling period is not theoretical — it's an exercise in high-stakes game theory.
Game theory
If one large miner signals,
others may quickly
piggy-back.
That cascade could push the network to miner-activation threshold faster than anyone expects.
If threshold is reached
Block 963,648.
The new consensus rules are still NOT active.
But the network now knows BIP-110 will activate in approximately two weeks.
Miners begin upgrading their software.
Activation
Block
965,664
The new consensus rules go live. Any block violating BIP-110 is rejected outright by BIP-110 nodes.
The miner's calculus
Include a violating transaction
and lose $200K+.
BIP-110 nodes won't relay it. Won't build on it. The block is orphaned — and the miner eats the cost.
Miners don't have to agree with BIP-110. They just have to do the math.
The real test
"If I include this inscription, will my block be rejected by the majority?"
The question every miner will ask
If the answer is yes — they simply don't include it.
Economic alignment does the work.
The bottom line
This might
actually
work.
Not through ideology. Not through appeals to consensus. Through $429 million in miner incentives — and pure game theory.
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