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By Contra September 3, 2026

Bitcoin’s loudest fight of the year got 2% miner support. The heat is no longer about Bitcoin. Culture war bundling assumes one position implies thirty more, which kills coalitions. But polarization isn’t fate, since six of twelve democracies got less polarized over forty years. Be one sided about the money. Refuse the bait about the tribe.

The loudest Bitcoin fight of the year ended with about 2% of miners signaling for it. BIP-110 wanted to cap arbitrary data in transactions for a one year trial. Adam Back called it a downgrade. Michael Saylor published a hundred and ten reasons against it. The signaling window opened in August against a 55% early lock in threshold, and support sat at roughly 2%. Measured by volume it was a war. Measured by consensus it was a rounding error.

That gap is worth more attention than the data question ever was. Bitcoin has not changed a consensus rule since Taproot in November 2021, the longest quiet stretch in its history, and some of that is conservatism working exactly as designed. Some of it is that we have gotten worse at finishing an argument. There is a mechanism behind that, it has been measured across twelve wealthy democracies over four decades, and half of them moved the opposite direction from us.

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