Bitcoin's BIP editors remove Luke Dashjr as editor

Bitcoin's Improvement Proposal editors removed Luke Dashjr's access to the BIPs repository, days after his BIP-110 proposal failed to gain enough miner support to activate. Fellow editor Mark 'Murch' Erhardt filed a motion citing four grounds: a conflict of interest, minimal editorial contribution, championing a contentious fork, and a breakdown in coordination with the other editors. Erhardt said Dashjr had assigned BIP-110 a number before it was discussed on the Bitcoin mailing list and merged a related pull request within minutes of submission. About 26 hours later, editor Jon Atack merged a one-line pull request striking Dashjr's name and email from BIP 3, confirming his editor and admin privileges had been revoked. Dashjr called the accusations false.

The move follows BIP-110's mandatory signaling window, in which the proposal drew roughly 2.5 percent of miner support against the 55 percent threshold needed for activation, and the minority chain that split off from enforcing nodes stalled after two blocks.

A soft fork that cannot win over miners still shapes Bitcoin governance once its author also edits the rules for proposing one, which is the conflict the other editors ultimately acted on.