Samson Mou is Confident that Controversy Around BIP-110 Could Have Been Avoided

Bitcoin proponent and entrepreneur Samson Mou believes that the BIP-110 initiative was largely a reaction to decisions and behavior within the Bitcoin Core ecosystem.

His comments were part of a discussion involving analyst Michael Sullivan, Bitcoin Core developer Antoine Poinsot, and Blockstream co-founder Adam Back.

If you do not take responsibility for the fact that you directly contributed to the emergence of the BIP-110 movement, this will happen again, — Mou wrote to Poinsot.

In the opinion of the Bitcoin maximalist, attacks from the opposing camp contributed to the subsequent negative reaction.

Your 'side' was equally vicious in its attacks, especially given your close ties and those of other Core developers to such fierce and malicious people as Brian from Bitcoin Magazine, — added Samson Mou. — Did you not think that anger and malice would come back tenfold?

The problem was exacerbated by several contentious points, including what he called "the unworthy actions of Zhao/Newberry" and "a long list of other clumsy missteps."

Mou holds the view that Bitcoin developers should have left OP_RETURN alone for a year or two until the situation calmed down.

Proponents of restricting arbitrary data argue that Bitcoin's limited block space should be primarily used for monetary transactions. This led to the creation of a new Bitcoin fork, which recently failed due to extremely low adoption.