Luke Dashjr Removed as BIP Editor After BIP-110 Bitcoin Fork Stalls

In brief

• Luke Dashjr has been removed as a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal editor and no longer holds editor or admin access to the BIPs repository.
• Fellow editor Mark "Murch" Erhardt filed the motion on August 9, citing a conflict of interest over BIP-110, minimal contribution to the role, and a breakdown in coordination between editors.
• Dashjr has continued to dispute the outcome and said on Monday he was taking a sabbatical from mining pool Ocean.

Luke Dashjr has lost his role as a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal editor, days after the soft fork he championed split off a chain that mined two blocks and stopped.

Fellow editor Mark Erhardt, who goes by Murch, put the motion to the Bitcoin Development Mailing List on August 9 and opened a pull request the same day as what he called a sample implementation of it.

Erhardt gave four grounds, arguing first that Dashjr had exercised editorial authority "inconsistently with the established editorial process unfairly favoring the proposal he was involved in," pointing to an attempt to assign BIP-110 a number publicly on X before it had been discussed on the mailing list, and to a merge completed within minutes of the pull request opening.

He also said Dashjr had left "fewer than 1% of the BIP Editor comments" in the repository since additional editors joined in April 2024, and that the disputed merge was his first since May 2024. Championing a soft fork that "now appears to evolve into a hard fork" amounted to "a complete departure from the Bitcoin development ecosystem," he wrote, adding that trust and coordination with the other editors had broken down.