Bitcoiners seek to bypass Luke Dashjr for OP_CAT soft fork

Bitcoin’s code review process is under scrutiny after Bitcoin Core contributor Bryan Bishop volunteered to replace Luke Dashjr.

This Bitcoin halving is the most expensive ever

This year is an especially rich Bitcoin halving, with Runes and the so-called ‘Epic Sat’ adding speculative fervor to global celebrations.

Following the launch of Bitcoin Ordinals early last year, individual and potentially rare sats can now be numbered and traded like NFTs.

The founder of Bitcoin Ordinals and their NFT-like Inscriptions is launching a fungible token standard and BRC-20 competitor called Runes.

Bitcoin Core developer and miner Luke Dashjr is also the sole administrator of the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal upgrade process.