According to Protos, Luke Dashjr has been the sole assigner of reviewing Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs) since 2011, but he has recently been criticized for refusing to assign a BIP number to a proposal by Casey Rodarmor, another Bitcoin Core contributor. Dashjr considered the proposal a garbage protocol and therefore did not take it seriously and did not assign it a BIP number. This behavior has raised questions about Dashjr's role as a BIP administrator, with critics saying he is becoming a gatekeeper who can unilaterally block changes to the Bitcoin code.
Dashjr also submitted a pull request aimed at blocking Ordinals, which attracted widespread attention. Critics believe that this will harm the revenue source of miners and is equivalent to censorship. Bitcoin Core maintainer Ava Chow ultimately rejected Dashjr's request and did not adopt his code, saying that the pull request was controversial and that no conclusion accepted by everyone has been reached.
Dashjr responded to the criticism against him, saying that another BIP editor stopped working in January. He emphasized that he worked on the BIP voluntarily without any compensation. However, Dashjr’s hardline stance against Ordinals seems to make it difficult for him to justify his role as the sole administrator of Bitcoin Improvement Proposals. His refusal has led many Bitcoin users to question the degree of decentralization of the Bitcoin network upgrade review process.
