BITCOIN SEASON 2: Inside the Mind of Luke Dashjr, Bitcoin's Most Polarizing Developer

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🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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We expose controversial Bitcoin developer Luke Dash Jr, his extreme religious and political views, geocentric beliefs, and how his Bitcoin Knots client reflects his authoritarian ideology while claiming to save Bitcoin. Today we dive deep into the controversial world of Luke Dash Jr, the Bitcoin developer behind Bitcoin Knots who believes the sun orbits the Earth, supports monarchy over democracy, follows an obscure Catholic sect with only 30,000 followers worldwide, and thinks using Bitcoin in ways he disapproves of should be criminal. We expose his authoritarian development practices and why Bitcoiners should know exactly who they're endorsing. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: • Luke's sect has only 30,000 followers vs 1.4B Catholics • Luke was sole BIP editor for a while • Bitcoin Knots filters some lighting & coinjoins • Luke believes violating laws equals immoral behavior • “GitHub doesn't work with Knots” claims disputed Timestamps: 00:00 Start 00:32 Geocentrism is back baby! 06:26 Why Luke is a Bitcoin legend 09:12 UASF 13:52 Knots 16:52 ONE maintainer to rule them ALL 23:06 Luke merge unreviewed code, sounds safe.. 24:34 BIPs repo 28:30 Knots has more maintainers? ahh, what? 35:12 Obscure religious sect - 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is produced Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media

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0:00.0	The Bitcoin dev, who, quote, saved Bitcoin is back at it again trying to rally the troops
0:06.1	and the plebs to run his particular client.
0:10.9	This Bitcoin developer also believes that the sun revolves around the earth.
0:15.8	Yes, a geocentrist, Luke Dash Jr. is at the head of the newest filter movement.
0:23.6	This is the dossier of Luke Dash Jr.
0:32.7	So Colin, maybe we get this out the way.
0:36.2	What revolves around the Earth? Does the Sun. Do you, what revolves around the Earth?
0:38.9	Does the Sun revolve around the Earth, or does the Earth revolve around the Sun?
0:42.6	I mean, I think all of the plans in our solar system revolve around the Earth, if you take a classical view of the position of our universe.
0:52.1	And obviously, the Earth revolves around the Moon, which is the true center of our solar system.
0:58.3	So I didn't think this was disputed.
1:01.0	I thought this was pretty common knowledge, you know?
1:05.4	This is like, I mean, this is textbook stuff, guys.
1:08.4	Yeah.
1:09.1	The, you know, as you'll find when we get into this, a lot of these things become a matter
1:14.7	of perspective because, you know, a Bitcoin developer or just anyone could claim that
1:20.4	everything revolves around the earth because maybe they take a purest approach to, you know,
1:25.8	special relativity and everything being relative to their perspective.
1:30.1	It's very postmodern, isn't it? It's a very, interestingly, it's a very postmodern argument.
1:35.9	And yeah, everything is relative. Earth seems pretty flat to me. I mean, no one's made a good argument
1:40.5	for why it should be spherical. But this is what you encounter in the world of Bitcoin.
1:47.2	You go so far down the rabbit hole that suddenly the Earth has no core and it's flat.
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