Veteran Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr is at the forefront of one of the most hotly-discussed debates in cryptocurrency — what the original blockchain network should be used for.
The advent of the Ordinals protocol in 2023, which allowed a form of NFTs to be minted on Bitcoin, and Runes a year later, which did something similar for fungible tokens, prompted calls from a number of voices — few as prominent as Dashjr’s — that they bring unnecessary spam to the Bitcoin network, distracting it from its core mission.
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Dashjr’s resume includes helping fix Bitcoin’s accidental hard fork in 2013 and maintaining the alternative Bitcoin Knots, giving him status as a venerable developer and commentator who warns against allowing a proliferation of non-financial
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