Luke Dashjr Removed as Bitcoin BIP Editor After BIP-110 Stalls

Luke Dashjr, a prominent Bitcoin developer and supporter of the BIP-110 soft-fork attempt, has been removed from his role as an editor of Bitcoin Improvement Proposals. The decision followed controversy over how BIP-110 was handled after the proposal entered a signaling period and quickly lost momentum.

The development matters because BIP editors help manage the formal process through which technical proposals for Bitcoin are organized and advanced. While editors do not unilaterally decide Bitcoin’s rules, disputes over editorial process can become important when proposals touch sensitive questions about network use, miner support and community consensus.

According to the source report, Dashjr was accused of misusing his editorial authority by trying to assign the proposal a BIP number before discussion and by quickly merging an update into the repository without following expected process. Bitcoin developer Mark Erhardt, who called for Dashjr’s removal on Aug. 9, also argued that Dashjr had made limited recent contributions to day-to-day BIP editor work.

Dashjr rejected the move, calling his removal an abuse of power in a post on X, and had previously denied the accusations when the motion was introduced. He later said he would take a sabbatical from his role as chair and chief technology officer of the mining pool Ocean to focus on Bitcoin and open-source projects.

BIP-110 aimed to create a breakaway Bitcoin chain that would temporarily restrict non-financial data such as images and text, a use case that grew after the Ordinals protocol emerged in 2023. The proposal gained support from only about 2.6% of miners, far below the 55% threshold needed, and the forked chain halted after mining two blocks while the main Bitcoin network continued operating normally.