Luke Dashjr removed as Bitcoin Improvement Proposal editor

Luke Dashjr lost his BIP editor privileges after developers raised concerns over his role in BIP 110 and its stalled minority fork.

Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr has been removed as an editor of Bitcoin Improvement Proposals following a dispute over his role in BIP 110.

Bitcoin developer Mark Erhardt opened the pull request on Sunday after recommending Dashjr’s removal on the Bitcoin Developer mailing list.

Erhardt said Dashjr had been “heavily involved” in creating and implementing BIP 110 and alleged that he unfairly favored the proposal while serving as an editor, including by attempting to assign it a BIP number before mailing-list discussion and quickly merging an update to it.

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