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

Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr has been removed as an editor of the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) repository following a dispute over his handling of the controversial BIP 110 proposal, which stalled after creating a minority chain split. The removal was executed on August 10, 2026, after a motion was filed by fellow editor Mark Erhardt on August 9, citing a conflict of interest and procedural concerns.

The dispute centers on BIP 110, a proposal aimed at temporarily restricting the embedding of nonfinancial data, such as Ordinals inscriptions, in Bitcoin transactions. The proposal entered mandatory signaling on August 8 at block 961,632 but failed to gain sufficient support, reaching only about 2.5% of miner signaling, far below the required 55% threshold. This led to a minority chain split that mined only two blocks before stalling, while the main Bitcoin network continued uninterrupted.

Erhardt, who goes by Murch, alleged that Dashjr exercised editorial authority inconsistently and unfairly favored BIP 110. He pointed to Dashjr's attempt to assign a BIP number to the proposal before it had been discussed on the developer mailing list and a rapidly merged update to the...