Power struggle hits Bitcoin network over anti-spam proposal with claims of ‘faked’ node support

A new chart from Jameson Lopp has reopened one of Bitcoin’s oldest internal debates: whether visible node counts reflect real support for a rule change. The immediate flashpoint is BIP-110, a draft proposal that would temporarily impose much tighter consensus-level limits on non-monetary data, following Bitcoin Core 30’s loosening of the default OP_RETURN policy. Lopp says the node surge behind it may be Sybil-inflat…