Luke Dashjr
Bitcoin Knots maintainer; central figure of BIP-110 and the 2026 BLAKE2b fork.
Not yet a guest. His fork is covered through the magazine and episodes with Lukas Hozda and Bob Summerwill.[4][5]
Bitcoin Knots and BIP-110
Luke Dashjr maintains Bitcoin Knots and is credited on BIP-110, a soft fork to limit arbitrary data on Bitcoin[1][2].
The BLAKE2b fork
When BIP-110 failed to win SHA-256d hashrate, the project became a hard fork with a new proof of work. Dashjr authored the BLAKE2b block header, the newspaper headline placed in the activation block's coinbase, and the coinbase maturity rule[1], and his Bitcoin Knots proposal is titled "Hardfork: New BLAKE2b proof-of-work algorithm"[3]. See Bitcoin BLAKE2b.
2026
According to the Forks! magazine, in August 2026 he was removed as a BIP editor, resigned from OCEAN and went on to lead CONVOY Mining; he calls the original majority chain "Spamcoin"[1].
References
- btkBitcoin BLAKE2b: The Fork That Fired the Miners (BTCTKVR: Forks!) [archived]
- primaryBIP-110 specification [archived]
- secondaryBitcoin Marketing Department, BLAKE2b fork media advisory (XBT naming) [archived]
- episodeS17 E17: Lukas Hozda on BIP-110 — Vlad on a possible Knots/BIP-110 fork▶ listen at 1:18:41timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- episodeS17 E42: Bob Summerwill — the BIP-110 chain ground to a halt▶ listen at 38:26timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]