From: Anthony Towns <aj@erisian.com.au>
To: Murch <murch@murch.one>
Cc: Bitcoin Development Mailing List <bitcoindev@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoindev] Motion to remove Luke Dashjr from BIP Editors
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:05:36 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <annowA1guaTURH93@erisian.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad36522e-f479-4ac3-9904-cf00cfa8ec46@murch.one>
On Sun, Aug 09, 2026 at 11:29:09AM -0700, Murch wrote:
> I recommend that Luke Dashjr be removed from the position of BIP Editor.
Very overdue.
Having a BIP editor who's actively promoting a minority fork as the
real Bitcoin while lying about the risks of such an approach and calling
everyone who disagrees with him a liar and/or a pedophile is completely
untenable. The bar for being a BIP editor should be substantially higher
than that, but it certainly mustn't be below it.
Cheers,
aj
> 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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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-09 18:29 [bitcoindev] Motion to remove Luke Dashjr from BIP Editors Murch
2026-08-09 19:35 ` Luke Dashjr
2026-08-10 15:20 ` Murch
2026-08-09 19:47 ` Jameson Lopp
2026-08-09 19:48 ` Matt Corallo
2026-08-09 20:42 ` Michael Tidwell
2026-08-10 1:40 ` Antoine Riard
2026-08-09 20:56 ` Olaoluwa Osuntokun
2026-08-10 8:08 ` Jonas Nick
2026-08-10 15:05 ` Anthony Towns [this message]
2026-08-10 15:30 ` 'Antoine Poinsot' via Bitcoin Development Mailing List
2026-08-10 20:51 ` Bryan Bishop
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