Luke Dashjr Removed as Bitcoin BIP Editor Following (BIP)-110 Fork Failure

Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr, who backed the failed Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)-110, has been removed from his position as an editor of such proposals for the development of the Bitcoin network. 

The decision, voted on by other Bitcoin developers, was posted on the BIP Github Sunday. The BIP Github page, separate from Bitcoin Core’s repository, is where developers can make proposals to change Bitcoin. 

Dashjr called the decision “an abuse of power by Core,” adding: “They have no authority to do so.” 

The motion read: “Over the past several years, Luke has been at the center of many contentious disputes within the Bitcoin ecosystem, and this week a new forkcoin spun out of Bitcoin under his leadership.”

It added: “More specifically, Luke was heavily involved in the creation and implementation of BIP110, the proposal that led to the fork. During that process, he also exercised his authority as a BIP Editor inconsistently with the established editorial process unfairly favoring the proposal he was involved in.”

The post further added that Luke has otherwise made hardly any contributions to the day-to-day work of the BIP Editors and “exercised his editorial privileges in a manner that raises conflict-of-interest concerns.”