Key Takeaways

What is the Bitcoin hard fork proposal by Luke Dashjr about?

It involves giving a trusted committee power to censor and replace blockchain data deemed illegal.

Why is this proposal controversial for the Bitcoin community?

It threatens Bitcoin’s core value of censorship resistance and blockchain immutability.

Bitcoin [BTC] is at the center of new drama.

A leaked conversation has revealed that developer Luke Dashjr may be considering a hard fork that could give a trusted committee the power to censor data on the blockchain. This is an idea that strikes at the heart of Bitcoin’s promise of censorship resistance.

Here’s what you need to know!

Bitcoin censorship back in the spotlight

Dashjr, maintainer of the Bitcoin Knots client, is considering a drastic step. It involves a hard fork that would give a trusted multisig committee power to retroactively alter blockchain data. The stated aim is to remove child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and other non-monetary data such as Ordinals and Runes, content that some in the community have long labeled as “spam.”

This proposal is the latest development in the