Developer Jason Hughes reported on October 29 that he was blocked from the Bitcoin portal within the GitHub website by the Bitcoin Core Team, a group of collaborators who manage the most used clients on the network.
As he explained in his explanation, If an outage occurs without prior notice After expressing opposition to a change under discussion within the core project repository.
I’ve been banned from Bitcoin’s GitHub…for some crime?I posted that they seem to be moving quickly to hasten this change, and pointed out that the admins of DNS Seed are currently unable to comment (according to the thread cited)…and I’m blocked. There are no warnings or anything.
Jason Hughes, Bitcoin developer.
GitHub is an online platform. Developers manage and collaborate on open source software technologies.like Bitcoin. In it, changes to the code are proposed, reviewed, and discussed before being formally incorporated.
In the Bitcoiner situation, characterized by the so-called “node wars”, the conflict started with “.Pull request or PR« (integration request) was submitted by the Bitcoin Core team. What is being discussed there is removal of “DNS seed” maintained by Luke Daschledevelopers who object to that software’s policies.
a DNS seed (Domain Name Seed) is a server that assists new nodes in the Bitcoin network Search for other active nodes on first boot.
Luke Dash Jr., Sow DNS seed (dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr-list-of-p2p-nodes.us), implemented Personal “delay” policy Contains a new version of the node.
This means that the seed will not immediately add nodes running the latest version of Bitcoin Core (e.g. v30) until the version is deemed well-tested or stable.
In a post on X, he defended this practice as a means to ensure the quality and stability of Bitcoin nodes. What the seed recommends to other nodes in the network:
The core team doubles down on their roles as villains (again). My DNS seeding has always had a policy of slightly delaying the release of targeted nodes. Other seeds may have a fixed IP address. Everyone should not be uniform, just fair.
Luke Dashjr, Bitcoin Knots Customer Maintainer.
In contrast, the PR announces that Luke’s seeds “are not returning a representative sample of Bitcoin nodes. Currently, they are not returning any since version 28.1.0, which violates our policy.”
In this framework, Mr. Hughes, in an argument developed in his PR, warned that:
This is clearly a personal attack, has no technical merit, does not violate any policy, and is part of an ongoing witch hunt against Luke by some. I recommend waiting until Luke Dashjr is able to comment and give his opinion directly before considering a hasty merger.
Jason Hughes, Bitcoin developer.
Shortly after, Hughes was banned from the Bitcoin Core organization on GitHub. Prevents participation in repository discussions and posts.
Finally, the PR text reports that the conversation “got too heated and was blocked and limited to collaborators,” indicating that: Only a small number of members can continue to participate in the discussion.
As detailed in the CriptoNoticias editorial, Satoshi Nakamoto Designing Bitcoin without hierarchy or visible leadersthe development of the protocol showed that the absence of a central figure does not prevent the emergence of individualism and personal influence.