Luke Dashjr

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Luke Dashjr is a long-standing Bitcoin Core developer who has contributed to Bitcoin's codebase since 2011. He is known for his technically rigorous and opinionated positions on Bitcoin's protocol development, including vocal opposition to certain scaling proposals and strong advocacy for protocol purity. Dashjr is a co-founder of Eligius, one of the earliest Bitcoin mining pools, and has been involved in multiple Bitcoin improvement proposals.

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Role: Bitcoin Core Developer
Twitter: LukeDashjr
Known For: Bitcoin Core contributor since 2011; co-founder of Eligius mining pool; BIP author
Nationality: American
Twitter Handle: lukedashjr

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