Luke Dashjr
CTO at OCEAN · Core Developer at Bitcoin
Faithful Roman Catholic, husband, father of six children, and Bitcoin Core developer.Luke Dashjr, known in the Bitcoin world as Luke-Jr, is a Bitcoin Core developer and the founder of Eligis mining pool. He has made over contributions to Bitcoin Core, and maintains the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals section on GitHub.Dashjr has been contributing to Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin since . Segregated Witness, a proposal that among other improvements increases Bitcoin’s transaction capacity, was implemented as a soft-work with Dashjr’s help.Released in , Dashjr’s BFG Miner has become one of the most widely used implementations of Bitcoin mining software. It supports a wide range of mining hardware and is available on Mac, Windows, and Linux.Dashjr founded Eligius, one of the first Bitcoin mining pools. Today it amounts to less than % of the Bitcoin network hashrate. Eligius is an anonymous mining pool and no registration is required.Dashjr is responsible for BIPs and . BIP added protocol support for long polling, which allowed to be notified of new templates immediately. BIP allows miners to “check the basic validity of their next block before expending work on it, reducing risks of accidental hardforks or mining invalid blocks.”
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So much good news from our portfolio this month: @dakota_xyz launched Self-Serve @pluralisresearch released Agora @catena_labs raised their Series A @lifiprotocol launched Intents @veda_labs launched Bitcoin Earn on @krakenfx
Fucking bitcoin:native piece of fucking shit
To call Gloire Kambale Wanzavalere (@SatGlober01) a renaissance man is to perhaps understate his abilities. As the founder of @bridgesats, @kiveclair, and @beBOPcommunity as well as the co-founder of the Africa Bitcoin Conference (@AfroBitcoinOrg), he's paved the way for those in his home country,
ACTUAL ONCHAIN BOATING ACCIDENT? On Monday, 5 bitcoin addresses sent ~107 BTC ($8.3m) to an old burn address, making the coins provably unspendable. Why would someone do this? The Galaxy Research team's best theories are in the thread below (spoiler: none are very good).
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LATEST: 📊 Bitcoin topped on day 1,162 of the current cycle — within one week of its historical peak timing — and is likely to bottom in October 2026, according to Benjamin Cowen of Into the Cryptoverse.
JUST IN: BLOOMBERG JUST SAID LIVE SPACEX HAS BEEN QUIETLY BUYING FOR #BITCOIN FOR YEARS WITHOUT EVER SELLING THEY OWN $1,300,000,000 WORTH OF BTC "IT IS A STRATEGIC RESERVE" THE 1st $1 TRILLION BTC COMPANY 🔥
Green or Red Arrow Next!? Liquidity drives markets. We're on Cusp of next major expansion. Highlighted below is when the balance sheet 'bottomed' before expansion + how Bitcoin performed. So ask yourself, should you really be worried here? A pullback here is a gift. https://t.co/41Eyf13HLE
According to Strategy, $MSTR is a ₿itVac. Hard to argue with that, especially when they’ve already purchased 2.6× all the Bitcoin mined in 2026 YTD https://x.com/Strategy/status/2059636745717653563