From: Murch <murch@murch.one>
To: Bitcoin Development Mailing List <bitcoindev@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [bitcoindev] Motion to remove Luke Dashjr from BIP Editors
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2026 11:29:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad36522e-f479-4ac3-9904-cf00cfa8ec46@murch.one> (raw)
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
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2026-08-09 18:29 Murch [this message]
2026-08-09 19:35 ` [bitcoindev] Motion to remove Luke Dashjr from BIP Editors Luke Dashjr
2026-08-09 19:47 ` Jameson Lopp
2026-08-09 19:48 ` Matt Corallo
2026-08-09 20:56 ` Olaoluwa Osuntokun
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