Luke Dashjr removed as Bitcoin BIP editor following BIP-110 fork failure

Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr has been removed as a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) editor following the failure of the BIP-110 soft fork, which he helped write. The proposal, aimed at limiting arbitrary transaction data, triggered a brief minority chain split that quickly froze due to lack of hashpower. Developer Mark Erhardt initiated the removal, accusing Dashjr of abusing his editorial role to favor BIP-110 and neglecting his workload. Dashjr rejected the allegations, calling his removal an unauthorized "abuse of power" by Bitcoin Core.

Luke Dashjr BIP editor removal

• ▪Following Luke Dashjr's removal, BIP 3 lists only five remaining editors: Bryan Bishop, Jon Atack, Mark Erhardt, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, and Ruben Somsen
• ▪Bitcoin developer Mark Erhardt opened the pull request to remove Luke Dashjr from the BIP editors list, and developer Jon Atack merged the change on Monday, August 10, 2026
• ▪Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr was removed as an editor of Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs) following a pull request opened on Sunday, August 9, 2026

BIP-110 soft fork failure

• ▪Ocean, the mining pool where Luke Dashjr serves as chairman and chief technology officer, was the only mining pool that signaled support for BIP-110
• ▪BIP-110 sought to temporarily restrict the amount of arbitrary data embedded in Bitcoin transactions, a practice that increased after the emergence of Ordinals inscriptions in 2023
• ▪Signaling for the BIP-110 soft fork peaked at 2.53% of blocks, failing to reach the 55% support threshold required for activation

Chain split from BIP-110

• ▪The minority chain split resulting from BIP-110 stalled and froze after mining only two blocks over approximately eight hours due to a lack of hashpower support
• ▪Nodes enforcing BIP-110 rejected blocks from miners that did not signal support, triggering a minority chain split at block 961,632

Editorial process violation allegations

• ▪Mark Erhardt accused Luke Dashjr of having a thin recent workload, stating Dashjr left fewer than 1% of BIP editor comments in the repository since April 2024
• ▪Mark Erhardt alleged that Luke Dashjr unfairly favored BIP-110 by attempting to assign it a BIP number before mailing-list discussion and quickly merging an update to it
• ▪Luke Dashjr rejected the accusations of editorial misconduct, stating he followed the BIP process consistently for years and that Mark Erhardt was the one who stopped communicating

Dashjr abuse of power claims

• ▪Luke Dashjr characterized his removal as an abuse of power by Bitcoin Core, asserting they have no authority to remove him
• ▪Luke Dashjr announced he is taking a sabbatical from his role at the Ocean mining pool to focus on Bitcoin and open-source projects