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Bitcoin is money no state or company can change by decree. Anyone can use it. Anyone can verify it. Its fixed supply matters because the rules are public and people can refuse software that breaks them.

Satoshi Nakamoto's original white paper describes the foundation in nine pages: peer-to-peer electronic cash without a trusted intermediary.

Whatever side of BIP-110 you are on, this is the world we all want. We are all Bitcoiners.

Mission

BIP110.run makes a live constitutional dispute legible. It gathers chain evidence, node software, block payloads, primary sources, arguments, memes, and the people taking a public position in one place.

A soft fork has no king. Developers write proposals and code. Node operators choose the rules they enforce. Miners spend work extending histories those nodes will accept. Markets, builders, and holders decide what they value. The outcome emerges from what people run, mine, build on, hold, and refuse.

The mission is simple: help Bitcoiners see this process clearly enough to participate intelligently. Inspect the chain. Follow the sources. Test claims in your own tools and LLMs. Repost what survives. Make up your own mind.

Bitcoin lets strangers converge on one ledger without a trusted commander. Proof of work orders competing valid histories by accumulated work. Full nodes independently reject blocks that break the rules they run. This is Bitcoin's practical answer to the Byzantine Generals problem.

BIP-110 puts two questions before the network: what should Bitcoin carry, and who should bear the cost? This site keeps the evidence, arguments, and people close enough to examine together.

BIP-110 was authored by Dathon Ohm. Its public home is bip110.org, and the complete specification lives in the Bitcoin BIPs repository.

This is amateur work in the deepest sense: made for love, learning, and public value. A soft war can still be an icebreaker. We learn the network by watching how it disagrees.

Hal Finney was a legendary node runner

On January 10, 2009, Hal Finney posted two words: "Running bitcoin." He later recalled that he thought he was the first person besides Satoshi to run it. Soon after, Satoshi sent him the first documented person-to-person Bitcoin transaction: ten bitcoin.

Hal helped build PGP, putting strong encryption into ordinary people's hands. In 2004 he built RPOW, a working experiment that made Hashcash proofs reusable and transferable - a significant step from anti-spam computation toward digital cash.

Before Bitcoin launched, Hal described the network he hoped it could become: "The long tail of node operators is sufficiently large... simple altruism can suffice to keep the network running properly."

Hal's point was larger than charity. A broad tail of independent operators can help keep Bitcoin honest because the network does not need to pay or command every protector. Some people run Bitcoin because it is worth protecting.

Hal died of ALS in 2014 (may he rest in eternal peace), long before BIP-110. His view of this proposal is unknowable. This site honors the network he described: broad, independent, and sustained in part by simple altruism.

The Running Bitcoin Challenge, founded by his wife Fran, supports ALS research in Hal's memory.

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