F2Pool co-founder refuses BIP-444 Bitcoin soft fork, says it’s ’a bad idea’

F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang criticized Bitcoin’s BIP-444 soft fork — seeking to curb arbitrary onchain data — as a “bad idea” that he will not support.

Chun Wang, co-founder of major Bitcoin mining pool F2Pool, has pushed back against a proposed temporary soft fork aimed at limiting data spam on the Bitcoin network.

Wang wrote in a Monday X post that “BIP-444 is a bad idea.” He added that he, and presumably F2Pool, are “not going to soft fork anything,” whether it is “temporary or not.”

“Feel sad that some devs [are] moving further and further in the wrong direction,” he said.

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