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[2620:6e:a000:1::99]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ada2fe7eead31-76400e01e80si241706137.4.2026.08.09.12.48.24 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:48:24 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of lf-lists@mattcorallo.com designates 2620:6e:a000:1::99 as permitted sender) client-ip=2620:6e:a000:1::99; X-DKIM-Note: Keys used to sign are likely public at X-DKIM-Note: https://as397444.net/dkim/mattcorallo.com and X-DKIM-Note: https://as397444.net/dkim/clients.mail.as397444.net X-DKIM-Note: For more info, see https://as397444.net/dkim/ Received: by mail.as397444.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1wt9VO-00000000GLQ-34hZ; Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:48:22 +0000 Message-ID: <9e5a9595-d719-436b-ada0-a09900f1fcb9@mattcorallo.com> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2026 15:48:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [bitcoindev] Motion to remove Luke Dashjr from BIP Editors To: Murch , Bitcoin Development Mailing List References: Content-Language: en-US From: Matt Corallo In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed X-Original-Sender: lf-lists@mattcorallo.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@mattcorallo.com header.s=1786303262 header.b=pg+CgePE; dkim=pass header.i=@clients.mail.as397444.net header.s=1786303265 header.b=Tu7Jwf6U; spf=pass (google.com: domain of lf-lists@mattcorallo.com designates 2620:6e:a000:1::99 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=lf-lists@mattcorallo.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=REJECT dis=NONE) header.from=mattcorallo.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list bitcoindev@googlegroups.com; contact bitcoindev+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 786775582512 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: , List-Unsubscribe: , X-Spam-Score: -0.8 (/) I see no reason why he should not be removed. Matt On 8/9/26 2:29 PM, Murch wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I recommend that Luke Dashjr be removed from the position of BIP Editor. > > 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. > > 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. For example, he attempted to assign a BIP number to the draft publicly on Twitter before the > proposal had been discussed on the mailing list, and he merged a PR updating the BIP within minutes > of the PR being opened. > > The latter is particularly notable given that Luke has otherwise made hardly any contributions to > the day-to-day work of the BIP Editors since the additional editors began serving in April 2024: he > left fewer than 1% of the BIP Editor comments in the repository since then, and the merge action of > this PR was his first since May 2024. > > Communication between Luke and other BIP Editors had already broken down last year, following a > discussion about his attempt to side-step the process by prematurely assigning a BIP number out of > band. > > Taken together, I believe these circumstances raise serious concerns about Luke continuing to hold > editorial authority. In particular: > > - he has exercised his editorial privileges in a manner that raises conflict-of-interest concerns; > - he has contributed little to the ongoing workload of the BIP Editors; > - his recent championing of a contentious soft fork that now appears to evolve into a hard fork > represents a complete departure from the Bitcoin development ecosystem; and > - trust, communication, and coordination with the other BIP Editors have broken down. > > For these reasons, I motion that Luke be removed as a BIP Editor. > > Murch > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Bitcoin Development Mailing List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bitcoindev+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bitcoindev/9e5a9595-d719-436b-ada0-a09900f1fcb9%40mattcorallo.com.