What this is missing from the vibe of this post, and many of the comments, is that Luke has been an absolute giant in the history of btc development; you say you don't want him to bring his values to btc -- bad news for you, bro, he's been bringing them since forever. You have him to thank for SegWit, more than almost anyone else.

Btc attracts nutjobs and weirdos. (Look in the mirror.) They are brilliant, insane, and also sometimes idiots -- even in the same person, all at once. (Look in the mirror.) Without them (us) there would be no btc.

His terrible security practices were the worst part of that story. He stored a large amount of bitcoin on an Internet-connected server, which was hacked, losing his coins, and didn't bother to do a proper clean up. He continues to use the same server for Knots development, despite that the server may very well still be compromised, and it is hosting the Knots binaries that people are downloading and installing on their nodes! It's crazy.

The irony of the outrage train that Luke the Drama Queen started and way, way too many people jumped aboard is that they are objecting to a change that, had it been adopted much earlier, would probably have resulted in a lot less spam stuck in the permanent UTXO dataset. Had nodes advertised a higher data limit on OP_RETURN, there would have been less incentive for spammers to have gone to the effort of creating a system with which they can stuff their data into non-prunable, permanent fields. Nodes don't have to store OP_RETURN data, but they do have to store UTXOs. Now we're stuck with it, and with a system that makes it easy to keep adding more spam to the blockchain.

The whole shit show just served as an advertisement for the fact that the spammers succeeded, so now why would future ones want to use OP_RETURN, only to have their jpegs pruned off by nodes who choose to? Luke and company are continuing to incentivize the use of non-prunable UTXO space for arbitrary data. 🫠

I'm withholding judgment. It's possible he said those things facetiously or they're being taken out of context. Sun orbiting the earth could be a nuanced view depending on frame of reference. Just sayin'

Not that I agree with any or most of what he says; but i also think this line of argumentation is called the genetic fallacy

100%. It's a total "short everything that guy has ever touched" scenario

Luke may be the single most actor in the bitcoin space, both past and future.

And I'm not talking about this inane Knots drama.

Release the files, Luke!

Contrarian for the sake of contrarianism

I hate this kind of provocative edgelords so much. Even worse then always-yes-sayers. Diametrically opposed to my own worldview.

The deeper issue is that bitcoiners should be doing their own research on bitcoin. Not following influencers. I don't really need to know Luke's personal beliefs to know I disagree with many of his proposals. But, I guess it is helpful for some do dig deeper. It just starts to feel gross when this stuff becomes person.

He's a religious fundamentalist and it colors every action he takes. The mining pool he ran that preceded Ocean was named after Saint Eligius, known for using his wealth to build churches and monasteries, and promoted Christian conversion among pagans. The name of his Core fork, Knots, is a reference to “Mary, Undoer of Knots” as in the Virgin Mary. He routinely placed biblical passages in the coinbase transaction of blocks his mining pools found thus proving he is a spammer and a hypocrite. Anyone that has convictions such as this are inherently damaged and should not be tolerated in a management role of any sort. Especially one tied to a 2 trillion dollar asset class...

better make memes, not wars