Debates Bitcoin’s future is nothing newBut this week the discussion lasted on a deeper edge. One of the long-term bitcoin servants is in the middle of a storm about incompetence, censorship and what means to “save” the protocol.
Controversy rose on September 25th, following a Article published by The Rage Claiming to reveal that Luke DashJR, Bitcoin Knots’ software caregiver, promotes a tough fork to install a trusted Multisig committee with the power to retroactively change the blockchain, evaluate transactions and remove prohibited content.
A Blockchain Hard Fork is a permanent difference -different from the previous version of the blockchain software, asking all participants to upgrade to the new protocol because the new and old versions are incompatible.
The piece mentioned purported leaked text message in which Dashjr warned: “Either bitcoin died or we had to trust someone.”
The story spread throughout X.
Ram Related claims directly. “The fact is that I haven’t suggested a hardfork or any kind, and these evil actors just cling to the straw to deceive me and try to break my efforts to rescue Bitcoin again,” he wrote.
Anger responded to a meme on the impact of asking to know who sent the leak messages shared by its story.
Dashjr repeated his position several times in the following 24 hours. “Nope, nothing has changed. No one is calling for a hard fork anyway.” He posted. In another response, he underlined: “There is no difficult fork.”
The knots compared to the core divide
Behind the dispute lies a deeper division between the DashJR bitcoin knots project and the wider bitcoin core software used by most network.
The knots enforce the lighter transaction policies, including blocking non-financial data such as ordinal inscriptions and Runes tokens. The DashJR and his supporters have argued such measures protect Bitcoin’s financial integrity and protect it from regulatory risks. The main developers have a history to take a more permitted approach, tolerance of non -standard data until it does not break the consensus.
The unknown fork proposal was cut into the heart of that tightening. For Dashjr’s critics, it seems to confirm the fear that his vision will require compromise on the principle of bitcoin’s absence. For his defenders, leakage is an opportunity to smear designed to erase the case for stronger spam filters.
Among his defenders is Udi Wertheimer, co-founder of Taproot Wizards.
“Not a fan of Luke but it’s a hit piece and fake news. He doesn’t propose it,” Wertheimer posted on X, referring to the supposed hard fork plan.
“I (obviously) not on Luke’s side but … it’s a slippery low quality piece of propaganda,” he wrote.
Wertheimer concluded that what Dasjhr’s leak messages were a hypothetical discussion about the use of zero-knowledge proof to allow the knots nodes to avoid downloading “Spam.”
“It is, as always, no burger,” he concluded. “It’s a bit obvious to me that this proposal will never implement, and even if it did, it would not have been the network and did not split the network, and remains completely compatible with the core.”
It is worth noting that in the past 24 hours, 2.2% to trade around $ 109,000, A drop of more than 5.5% last week.
While there is no direct evidence that relates to the sinking of the controversy over Dashjr’s alleged plans, the timing is less beneficial. In crypto markets, only uncertainty can strengthen the downward pressure and rumors of the protocol’s disturbance tend to be beaten exactly.
