Shinobi has got to be one of the most disingenuous bitcoiners in all of Bitcoin. Shinobi is the “technical editor” of Bitcoin Magazine. Luke was literally the person who figured out the technical approach of SegWit BIP 141 for the 2017 UASF BIP 148. Shinobi is a journalist that has 0 commits to Bitcoin Core (or any Bitcoin client implementation software). Luke is a developer that has over 500 commits to Core and built/maintains a feature enhanced fork of Bitcoin Core called Knots. Today around 20% of the entire Bitcoin network’s reachable nodes run Knots. Here is a brief list of some of @LukeDashjr’s major achievements and contributions to Bitcoin: • One of the longest-tenured Bitcoin Core contributors (January 2011 until ~2025) with approximately 526 commits to Bitcoin Core. • Resolved the 2013 Bitcoin blockchain fork. First to publicly warn about the chain split caused by a bug in Bitcoin Core 0.8 (March 11, 2013) and helped coordinate the emergency consensus upgrade/soft fork that restored a single valid chain. • Key role in SegWit soft-fork deployment. Figured out the technical approach to activate Segregated Witness (SegWit/BIP 141) as a soft fork (avoiding hard-fork risks); contributed to the implementation and supported User Activated Soft Fork (UASF) efforts for activation. • Author of BIP 22 and BIP 23. Primary author of the getblocktemplate (GBT) decentralized mining protocol standards (2012), which enabled miners to construct their own block templates and laid groundwork for modern pooled mining protocols (far predating Stratum). • Was the Maintainer of the Bitcoin Core BIPs repository and process. Long-term volunteer maintainer of the official Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs) GitHub repo; was the primary (or sole) editor responsible for vetting proposals and assigning BIP numbers for many years. • Founded one of the earliest Bitcoin mining pools (Eligius, 2011). Created and operated Eligius, an anonymous/no-registration pool; wrote the first large-scale open-source mining pool software with full GBT support for decentralized mining. • Developed BFGMiner (2014). Released popular open-source mining software supporting a wide range of ASIC/FPGA hardware, with features like overclocking, monitoring, and remote control; widely used across platforms. • Maintainer of Bitcoin Knots. Develops and maintains Bitcoin Knots, a feature-enhanced fork of Bitcoin Core with advanced mining features, stricter default policies, and spam-filtering capabilities (e.g., against large OP_RETURN data or Ordinals/inscriptions); runs on 20%+ of publicly reachable nodes in recent years. • Co-founded Ocean mining pool (2023). Co-founder, Chairman, and CTO of Ocean, a decentralized Bitcoin mining pool that gives miners direct control over block template selection/construction to reduce pool operator centralization; uses Bitcoin Knots and received backing from Jack Dorsey. • Research and node advocacy. Co-authored research (with University of Bristol) estimating true Bitcoin node counts (suggesting >100,000 active nodes vs. visible counts); long-time advocate for widespread full-node usage to secure the network.