Why Luke Dashjr Is A #Bitcoin Legend
@Jack Dorsey calls him Bitcoin's "Guardian Angel"
$BTC developer since $0.30
A thread.
1/ Luke is a true OG. He discovered #Bitcoin at an IRC New Year's Eve Party at the end of 2010.
The price was $0.30
2/ Luke started one of the 1st mining pools back in 2011.
Eligius mined over 300,000 $BTC, all without charging users fees 🧡
3/ When Luke contested Bitcoin's first big soft fork in 2012, Bitcoin's lead developer asked him to leave.
Luke kept on working on #Bitcoin anyway 👏
bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/the-…
4/ Since 2011, Luke has been an official BIP Editor.
He volunteers to vet the proposals developers use to assess changes to #Bitcoin.
5/ In 2013, Luke was one of the first to detect a hard fork that could have split #Bitcoin in two.
6/ Amid the Block Size wars, Luke figured out how to implement SegWit as a block size increase
It's a reason #Bitcoin can process 4MB blocks today 👏
7/ By 2016, Luke was one of the top 20 contributors to #Bitcoin in the world 👑
8/ In 2017, Luke was one of the only #Bitcoin core contributors to support the UASF that eventually enacted SegWit.
The UASF proved users, not businesses or miners, drive consensus on upgrades 🏆
9/ Today, Luke develops #Bitcoin Knots, one of the few active alternative software implementations for Bitcoin.
The ability to write alternative implementations is a key feature of the network's decentralization.
bitcoinknots.org/#about
10/ When Luke lost his X account, one of his friends went to work finding bugs in Tesla's software.
After this, Elon Musk is rumored to have personally restored his account.
11/ In 2023, Luke launched a new mining pool called @ocean_mining and raised $7 million.
Ocean minimizes its custody and decentralizes mining by paying users from the coinbase directly 👏
12/ Have a favorite Luke moment? Post yours below
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