Thanks for the reply, Luke.
On 2026-08-09 12:35, Luke Dashjr wrote:
These are false accusations. I have followed the BIP process
consistently for years. Your novice opinions alone do not establish
new processes.
You are the one who stopped communicating, not I.
You are the one who should be removed.
You argue like my friend’s five-year-old: “Liar.” “No, you.”
Your history of toxic behavior has been well established since Gavin
Andresen’s tenure.¹ You assert things without evidence, fail to explain
your point of view, and revise history when doing so makes you look less
likely to have been wrong.
You have tried to pass off a modified fork² as the Bitcoin Core package
for Gentoo. You tried to block³ Taproot’s authors from documenting their
preferred deployment mechanism, attempting instead to supersede it with
your personal preference. You tried to use Bitcoin Core’s translation
resources for your personal fork and, when asked to stop, attempted a
hostile takeover⁴ of the repository.
You have baselessly accused fellow Bitcoin Core contributors of
stealing⁵ from you. You have filed CVEs against the judgment of other
contributors. You call Bitcoin Core a malware project and an attack on
Bitcoin when you disagree with its decisions, while simultaneously
presenting Bitcoin Knots as merely another release of Bitcoin Core,
associating it with Bitcoin Core’s reputation and making it appear that
everyone who works on Bitcoin Core is also a Knots contributor.
Especially over the last few months, you have deliberately
misrepresented the prospects of your soft fork on an almost daily basis.
People have been making excuses for you for over a decade: “Luke is the
tenth man,” “Luke’s unique point of view is valuable,” “Luke is socially
awkward and confuses personal perception with objective reality,” and so on.
I’m tired of people giving you a pass for unacceptable behavior simply
because everyone has become accustomed to it. I’m fed up with your
instigation of harassment campaigns, bullying, and name-calling. I no
longer want to work with someone who either pretends not to recognize,
or genuinely cannot recognize, that other people can disagree with him
and still have a valid point of view.
You have contributed very little to the BIPs repository in half a
decade, causing the work in the repository to stall twice in the last
few years. At the same time, you have happily taken credit⁵ for the work
of others. You have been a net-negative contributor to Bitcoin for
years. Whatever you contributed in the past, it is past time that we
stop associating with you.
Now that people have made you king of your own forkcoin, please let us
take you at your word when you write, “Bpedo is not Bitcoin” and “Yes, I
have no interest in having anything to do with Bpedo.
Godspeed,
Murch
¹ https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62037.0
²
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2pfgjg/exposed_lukejr_plans_on_forcing_blacklists_on_all/
³
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/lottrue-or-lotfalse-this-is-the-last-hurdle-before-taproot-activation
⁴ https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2024-05-02.html#l-573
⁵ https://xcom/LukeDashjr/status/1921571463343055003
⁶ https://x.com/murchandamus/status/19865630014037773913
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