{"id":8960,"date":"2023-02-15T21:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/?p=8960"},"modified":"2022-05-13T01:33:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T01:33:07","slug":"do-you-know-who-luke-dashjr-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/do-you-know-who-luke-dashjr-is","title":{"rendered":"Do you know who Luke Dashjr is?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_75 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Alternar tabla de contenidos\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #ffffff;color:#ffffff\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #ffffff;color:#ffffff\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/do-you-know-who-luke-dashjr-is\/#beginning_of_your_career\" >Beginning of your career<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/do-you-know-who-luke-dashjr-is\/#luke_dashjrs_arrival_in_the_bitcoin_world\" >Luke Dashjr\u2019s arrival in the bitcoin world<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/do-you-know-who-luke-dashjr-is\/#fun_facts_about_luke_dashjr\" >Fun facts about Luke Dashjr<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Tiempo de lectura:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutos<\/span><\/span><p>If you want to know who\u00a0<b>Luke Dashjr<\/b>, known in the Bitcoin world as Luke-Jr, is,\u00a0<b>he\u2019s a Bitcoin Core developer with over 200 contributions. An incredible activist who fights for freedom and who has worked to improve the ecosystems of Bitcoin and GNU\/Linux.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you google Luke Dashjr you may not find much information about him. That\u2019s because, despite being one of the great developers of Bitcoin, Luke-Jr prefers to keep his life as private as possible.<\/p>\n<p>In his Twitter profile (@LukeDashjr) he tells us something about his life:<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cRoman #Catholic*, husband, father of 7 children, and #Bitcoin Core developer; INTP (*the farts who took over Vatican City are NOT Catholic)\u201d<\/b><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>So we know that he is married, has 7 children and is Catholic but critical of the Vatican and lives in Tampa. Beyond that no one knows what his date of birth is, where he has studied, who his parents are, etc.<\/p>\n<p>What we do know for sure, and what really interests us, is that Luke has made a number of contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem in his\u00a0<b>23+ year career as a developer.<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"beginning_of_your_career\"><\/span><b>Beginning of your career<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Luke began his career as a developer in 2001<\/b>, leading the development of Kye 3.0, a simple puzzle game that existed since 1992 but that Luke Jr. completely rewrote.<\/p>\n<p>During that year he also led the Open Direct Connect project. This project is a P2P protocol to share files among those who were part of the network (similar purposes to those we reviewed weeks ago with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-sia-skynet\/\">Sia\u2019s Skynet<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This protocol is part of the DCC clients, widely used during 2002 and which would allow file sharing and currently used in a large part of the Darknet.<\/p>\n<p>It is in this project where Luke was in charge of writing the interfaces that make possible the connection between services such as IRC\/DCC, NeoModus Direct Connect and OpenNapster.<\/p>\n<p>He was also in charge of designing in 2002 a small boat for the XMMP communication protocol. Over time this would be of immense value to the community and would be the starting point for several other control bots.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, Dashjr joined Gentoo Linux as a developer and then became a maintainer and writer of ebuilds. This job of writing scripts for software installation and configuration is something he does to this day on Gentoo.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his life he has participated in dozens of projects including OpenZaurus (2005), Utopios (2003-2011), GammaMOO (2004-2012), House Control Automation Framework (2007-2012).<\/p>\n<p>Currently, he has made an incredible contribution by patching a huge amount of software to use Reptoline, a compilation feature that helps avoid vulnerabilities such as Spectre or Meltdown. In this way they will not be able to affect the security of the operating systems or the software they run.<\/p>\n<div id=\"image_64129698\" class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\">\n<div class=\"img-inner dark\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large size-large ls-is-cached lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/quien-es-luke-dashjr_2-1024x701.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/quien-es-luke-dashjr_2-1024x701.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/quien-es-luke-dashjr_2-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/quien-es-luke-dashjr_2-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/quien-es-luke-dashjr_2-1536x1052.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/quien-es-luke-dashjr_2.jpg 1601w\" alt=\"quien es luke dashjr Bitnovo\" width=\"1020\" height=\"698\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/quien-es-luke-dashjr_2-1024x701.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/quien-es-luke-dashjr_2-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/quien-es-luke-dashjr_2-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/quien-es-luke-dashjr_2-1536x1052.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/quien-es-luke-dashjr_2.jpg 1601w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/quien-es-luke-dashjr_2-1024x701.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"luke_dashjrs_arrival_in_the_bitcoin_world\"><\/span><b>Luke Dashjr\u2019s arrival in the bitcoin world<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Dashjr takes notice of Bitcoin in 2011 and soon after he joins the project as a developer.<\/b>\u00a0Being a very skilled developer, he didn\u2019t need much time to stand out and boost the project in the first years of its life.<\/p>\n<p>Luke\u2019s first contributions focused on finding solutions for various security, performance and advanced features issues within Bitcoin Core.<\/p>\n<p>This would change in 2014, when Dash-jr began to grow in relevance within the ecosystem due to its modified version of BFGMiner. This allowed thousands of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/how-long-does-it-take-to-mine-a-bitcoin\/\">Bitcoin miners<\/a>\u00a0to get more performance compared to other miners at that time.<\/p>\n<p>His extensive knowledge in topics such as software optimization accumulated over many years of work, coupled with his participation as a developer in Gentoo made Luke one of the stars of the ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>This would become even more evident in 2016, with the introduction of BIP-2, a development that would substantially improve the BIP format created by Amir Taaki.<\/p>\n<p>During that year and the next, Dashjr\u00a0<b>would be a key piece in the execution of Segwit in Bitcoin.<\/b>\u00a0Thanks to his contributions, the Bitcoin Core team\u00a0<b>was able to avoid<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-a-hard-fork\/\">hardfork<\/a>\u00a0and implement Segwit as a softfork. This way, they managed to avoid the risks that the first solution would have caused for Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also fair to highlight other very important contributions in the development of Bitcoin, such as<\/p>\n<p>BIP-22: Creation of a structure to generate block diagrams that allow miners to optimize the generation and that is supported by different mining software and Bitcoin clients.<\/p>\n<p>BIP-23: Improvement of the efficiency in the generation of blocks but within mining pools, based on the proposal BIP-22.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"fun_facts_about_luke_dashjr\"><\/span><b>Fun facts about Luke Dashjr<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0<b>It saved Bitcoin from a major crisis<\/b>\u00a0as it was one of the first to detect a Bitcoin hard fork in 2013, caused by a software failure in Bitcoin Core.<\/p>\n<p>How was it caused? The nodes that upgraded to version 0.8 of Bitcoin brought a bug to life that caused an accidental hard fork. Dashjr detection and fast computer response prevented the network from crashing completely.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0<b>Luke is a cyber security<\/b>\u00a0extremist and thinks that the Bitcoin network has many weaknesses when it comes to security. He\u2019s an active proponent of creating nodes to improve\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/blog\/en\/what-is-blockchain-and-how-does-it-work\/\">blockchain<\/a>\u00a0security.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 It\u2019s ranked\u00a0<b>number 11<\/b>\u00a0in the Bitcoin Core code contributors ranking.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 In 2017, both he and his family were victims of Hurricane Irma, which devastated a large part of their belongings. The community started a fundraising campaign to help him where 5 BTCs were gathered.<\/p>\n<p>We take this opportunity to thank\u00a0<b>Luke Dashjr<\/b>\u00a0on behalf of the entire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitnovo.com\/\">Bitnovo<\/a>\u00a0team. Possibly without him and his contributions we would not be here today enjoying one of the greatest revolutions of all time.<\/p>\n<p><b>Thanks a lot Luke!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Tiempo de lectura:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutos<\/span><\/span>If you want to know who\u00a0Luke Dashjr, known in the Bitcoin world as Luke-Jr, is,\u00a0he\u2019s a Bitcoin Core developer with over 200 contributions. An incredible activist who fights for freedom and who has worked to improve the ecosystems of Bitcoin and GNU\/Linux. If you google Luke Dashjr you may not find much information about him. 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