Luke Dashjr removed as Bitcoin BIP editor after BIP-110 fork fails

Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr has been removed as a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) editor following the failure of the controversial BIP-110 soft fork. Fellow editor Mark Erhardt filed the motion on August 9, 2026, accusing Dashjr of abusing his editorial authority to fast-track the proposal, which sought to restrict arbitrary data like Ordinals. The BIP-110 fork triggered a chain split on August 8 but stalled after mining only two blocks, securing just 2.53% miner support against a 55% threshold. Dashjr, who called his removal an abuse of power, has taken a sabbatical from mining pool Ocean.

Luke Dashjr BIP editor removal

• ▪Luke Dashjr described his removal as an editor as an abuse of power by Bitcoin Core and asserted they had no authority to do so.
• ▪Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr was removed from his position as an editor of Bitcoin Improvement Proposals on August 10, 2026.
• ▪Bitcoin developer Jon Atack merged pull request #2248 to delete Luke Dashjr's name from BIP 3, the document listing active BIP editors.

BIP-110 soft fork failure

• ▪Michael Saylor and Blockstream's Adam Back publicly opposed BIP-110, objecting to an activation method they argued invited a chain split.
• ▪The BIP-110 proposal sought to temporarily restrict the amount of arbitrary, non-financial data, such as Ordinals inscriptions, embedded in Bitcoin transactions.
• ▪BIP-110 failed to activate after receiving signaling support from only 51 of 2,016 blocks, representing 2.53% of miners, far below the required 55% threshold.

Chain split stalled blocks

• ▪The BIP-110 breakaway chain stalled at block height 961,633 after a pseudonymous mining group called Roughnecks mined only two blocks.
• ▪The BIP-110 soft fork attempt triggered a minority chain split at block 961,632 on August 8, 2026, when enforcing nodes rejected blocks that did not signal support.
• ▪By August 10, 2026, the main Bitcoin chain had advanced to block 961,925, leaving the stalled BIP-110 fork 292 blocks behind.

Editorial misconduct allegations

• ▪Mark Erhardt alleged that Luke Dashjr attempted to assign a BIP number to BIP-110 before mailing-list discussion and quickly merged an update within minutes of its pull request opening.
• ▪Bitcoin developer Mark Erhardt filed the motion to remove Luke Dashjr on August 9, 2026, alleging Dashjr unfairly favored BIP-110 by bypassing established editorial processes.
• ▪Mark Erhardt noted that Luke Dashjr contributed fewer than 1% of BIP editor comments since April 2024, and the disputed BIP-110 merge was his first since May 2024.

Ocean mining pool sabbatical

• ▪Luke Dashjr announced on August 10, 2026, that he is taking a sabbatical from his roles as chairman and chief technology officer of mining pool Ocean.
• ▪Ocean, which was the only mining pool to signal support for BIP-110, announced it would reimburse miners whose hashrate was inadvertently directed to the stalled fork.