A fresh soft-fork concept billed as a “temporary” fix for non-monetary data on Bitcoin has ignited one of the sharpest developer rows since the blocksize wars, with critics decrying the move as censorship theater—and, more explosively, as an attempt to force changes under the specter of legal liability.

The proposal —submitted on Oct. 24, 2025, to the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs) repository as “Reduced Data Temporary Softfork”—seeks to “temporarily limit arbitrary data at the consensus level.” Authored by contributor “dathonohm,” it explicitly cites an earlier mailing-list idea from longtime developer Luke Dashjr and frames the effort as a short-run measure while longer-term designs are pursued. The pull request was labeled “New BIP,” with discussion organized around two activat

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