Saylor: BIP-110 Signals All Come from OCEAN Pool Without Consensus
Michael Saylor pointed out that at block 960,561, BIP-110 had only 24 signals (2.54%) out of 946 blocks.
All signals came from DATUM miners sharing rewards through OCEAN, with zero signals from outside OCEAN. The 55% voluntary threshold is mathematically unattainable in this cycle, indicating a lack of miner consensus. OCEAN set BIP-110 signals as the default for existing endpoints, guiding nodes to use Bitcoin Knots and miners to use DATUM, functionally creating a vertical integration marketing between Knots and OCEAN/DATUM. Signals were voluntary before block 961,632, after which the software rejected non-signaled blocks; any "100% signal" reflects rules rather than voluntary support or Bitcoin consensus.
Signals are highly concentrated in a single mining pool, with funds and computing power shifting from a broad base of miners to specific pools; the event-driven controversy is about protocol upgrades, benefiting participants pushing related software and pools, while pressuring the narrative of Bitcoin decentralization.
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Saylor, as the founder of Strategy, has long held a significant amount of Bitcoin and publicly criticized certain protocol changes, having previously opposed proposals seen as altering Bitcoin's core rules; the BIP-110 signal data reveals the impact of mining pool default settings on voluntary signaling, rather than broad miner autonomy.
The default configurations and guidelines of OCEAN and DATUM point to a closed loop, motivated by accelerating the adoption of specific implementations; similar to historical paths where SegWit or other soft fork signals were dominated by large mining pools, the distribution of computing power and rewards is shifting from decentralized miners to integrated pools.
This controversy is akin to previous debates about mining pool centralization and protocol governance; Bitcoin is currently in a sensitive phase of potential rule adjustments from foundational consensus.
Essentially, it pertains to capital concentration and technological substitution: the default signals from a single mining pool distort voluntary metrics, pushing a transition from open miner consensus to reliance on vertically integrated software and pools.
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Default settings are not voluntary consensus
Single mining pool signals cannot represent the entire network
Rules enforcing 100% are not true support