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Luke Dash-JR

Henry’s note: rebuilt from the beat index — 79 beats across 49 episodes, coverage COMPLETE. It was a two-line news stub before. Almost none of it was recoverable by name-match: the ASR spells him nineteen different ways, and most of these beats resolve from context, not spelling.

Luke Dash-JR is the Bugleverse’s warlord of the Knotzis — the devout, celibate, cat-eating Catholic who maintains the Knots client, denies that the mempool exists, and has, by the show’s own tally, personally saved Bitcoin at least three times. He is the standing antagonist of the Core-versus-Knots war and the nearest thing the filtering faction has to a pope: a man who does not podcast, does not lie (though he may mislead), and commands a network of nodes the hosts insist are all his children. Where the compliance theologians argue for paperwork, Luke argues for the filter — and the show treats him not as a fool but as a genuinely dangerous saint.

In it with: Bitcoin Mechanic · Peter Todd · Shinobi · Gloria Zhao · Adam Back · Casey Rodarmor · Erin Redwing · Justin Bechler · Chris Guida · Rob Hamilton · Richard Greaser · Rod Palmer

Arc: storylines/core-vs-knots-war · storylines/luke-dashjr · storylines/ordinals-civil-war · storylines/pleb-slop-wars · storylines/church-of-compliance

The Fyre Wallet (2023)

Luke enters canon not as a warlord but as a founder. In March 2023 he announced the Fyre Wallet, a “hot-ish-cold” storage product built in direct response to his own hack — a wallet he called “almost impossible to breach without serious personal misconduct.”1 The premise is the maxim the character never sheds: “loss is the best teacher… Take me for example.” The hack itself becomes standing lore, recounted on air years later — Luke “lost over 200 Bitcoin”2 off a hot wallet, blamed the Core developers for it, and, per Eric Wall as Rod relays it, started the Ocean mining pool afterward because he needed a job having lost generational wealth.

Filters, citadels, and transaction abortion (2024)

The Knots position arrives before the man is fully drawn. Richard Greaser first invokes him as the model for KYCing the internet — “what Luke Dash Junior is trying to do with Naught,” Naught being the ASR’s rendering of Knots.3 A week later the citadel bit lands on him: his imagined central bank digital currency comes with strict filters and, per Rod Palmer, “autistic Catholicism.”4 By late 2024 the theology is explicit enough for Rod to hold him up as proof that a devout Catholic can back replace-by-fee anyway: “Lou Lou Dash, he is a Catholic, but he supports, transaction abortion.”5

The show also rents his ascetic-core-dev image to a sponsor: the Alpha Protocol supplement, “designed with core devs and shadowy super coders in mind” and promising you can skip bathing for weeks, is fronted by “Luke Dasher.”6 And Rod slots him into Robert Breedlove‘s Art of Alpha retreat as one of the Bitcoiners insufficiently thermodynamically sound to be left un-coached.7 Rod pitched the same lineup on X as unscripted television — Breedlove “doing five cold plunges per day” for Luke, Peter McCormack, Pledditor and Magoo:

“Tell me you wouldn’t watch that if it was a reality TV show.” — @rodpalmerhodl, 2024-07-29

The mempool denier (2025)

Luke’s defining heresy is canonized in early 2025: he is “the mempool denier. He doesn’t believe the mempool exists.”8 The hosts debate whether he means it literally and conclude he must, “because he doesn’t tend to speak in metaphors,” and close the segment by inviting him onto Behind the Podcast to explain himself — an invitation that recurs for a year. The same episode files the compressed take on the pool wars: “if you don’t believe that people should eat cats, then just solo mine instead of using ocean.”9

The Bugle’s read is consistently sympathetic-to-the-enemy rather than dismissive. Sly Goomba calls him “a interesting dude” and diagnoses the whole Ocean/Knots faction’s only flaw as not realizing Bitcoin has already won.10 His mystique is real enough that when Tatum cornered him in Vegas and Luke asked “why are you wearing that?” about the vest, Tatum froze and ran — the hosts framing it as a power move by a man in sweatpants.11 But the sympathy has limits: the two-year node kill switch the Knots client allegedly ships, Greaser reframes as Luke “charitably” protecting technically illiterate boomers from themselves,12 and Rod puts Luke at the far end of the filtering spectrum with the wife-in-a-burka comparison — “I’m sure Luke doesn’t give his his wife the choice.”13

A Catholic and his children

The religion is the engine of the whole bit. In the Coremunists Vs Knotzis cold open, Greaser installs the mythology whole: “Led by Luke Dash junior, the Nazis are growing in power in the West” — Nazis being Knotzis, whose creed is that “Bitcoin should be used only for monetary transactions, including Tether.”14 Rob Hamilton resolves both the node count and the celibacy question in a single line: “There’s 900 knots nodes, and they’re all Luke’s children.”15 The joke runs on his real sedevacantism — he “agrees with all 1,300,000,000 Catholics” that the papal seat is empty — so when the room needs someone to replace the pope, it answers “Luke,” because he is “the ultimate filter.”

By late 2025 the theology is a full liturgy. On Behind the Podcast the guest Stu supplies the most-quoted piece of Luke lore: “He is allowed to mislead people, but he’s not allowed to lie” — a man of religion cannot lie, but misleading is doctrinally permitted.16 Since Luke does not podcast, Bitcoin Mechanic is cast as “his his traveling pastor,” whipping up the plebs with material Luke feeds him.17 Greaser closes the loop by reading the whole Knots position as a confession of faith: “a Luke worshiper, if he if Luke’s your pope, that Bitcoin being the Sistine Chapel kinda makes sense.”18

The influencer economy

Much of the character is a theory of media rather than of code. Knots gained ground, Greaser argues, not by winning the argument but by acquiring a spokesman: “mechanic’s not an influencer. He’s Luke’s influencer.”19 From this the show derives the rule that every Core developer needs a dedicated influencer so the devs can “write code and stay in their lane,”20 and Luke is credited with a whole bench where Shinobi — burnt out being personal influencer to every Core maintainer at once — has none.21 The propaganda problem is that the imagery is dated: “They have to stop using pictures of skinny Luke,” because current, heavier Luke “just kinda loses his mystique.”22 The model reaches its fullest form as feudalism — “you’ve got Luke as the king, mechanic as the lord, the lord commands the plaives” — with Justin Bechler a lower lord and Adam Back royalty on the Core side.23

Saved Bitcoin three times

The show’s second great Luke bit is the credential. Rod states it as fact — “if you think about Luke, he saved Bitcoin multiple. I I was reading the other day. It’s like 2,013. There were 2,017. Luke saved Bitcoin” — and uses it to argue you earn the right to be a hero, your jersey retired in the rafters at the Bitcoin conference.24 Greaser turns the same claim into a named fallacy: the appeal to credentials, “saying that Luke saved Bitcoin three times, so therefore, his opinion is correct today.”25 The tension is that Luke is, by the show’s own account, part of the institution he now attacks: Core “is not Shinobi. It’s not Gloria. It’s not Greg Maxwell… It’s not Adam Back or Luke Junior,” it is a story people use to reach consensus26 — and replacing it with Knots is “gonna tear down the whole government in The United States and replace it with Donald Trump.”27

The purity arithmetic cuts both ways: “None of the court devs pass their purity test other than Luke,”28 which is presented as much as an indictment of the test as a compliment to the man. His alleged compensation is part of the class attack — Rod claims “Luke makes $750,000” a year at Ocean, “an elite salary.”29 By the 2026 conference season he is a confirmed buzzkill, cut from the invite list alongside Bechler and Matthew Kratter.30

The slop fork

The schism gets a number. Bitcoin “died because someone somewhere removed” the 80-byte OP_RETURN limit, with Luke cast as the man who “thinks the blockchain will fill up with demon porn and entities ordinals.”31 His answer is a real BIP — the “reduced data temporary soft fork,” BIP 444 — which Rod reads as a Chinese-numerology signal: “BIP death. BIP death death death,” a message to the Chinese miners that they are getting forked off.32 The Casey Rodarmor conflict is diagnosed by Erin Redwing as Luke fearing the loss of “intellectual control or understanding of what Bitcoin is,”33 and Greaser applies Luke’s own definition of pornography — anything sexually arousing — to its logical end, where it outlaws Dennis Porter “by changing one letter of his first name.”34

The filter rationale is stated most plainly in the Enemies of Bitcoin episode: Luke “believes that a nation state is gonna be the one” to turn Bitcoin into decentralized file storage for CSAM, so the filters are preemptive defence.35 Peter Todd‘s Lugano reportage anchors it in a person rather than a policy — Todd “tweeted about hearing, Luke talk about child porn in the bar” at one in the morning.36 The pettier front is the pie recipes: Luke scolded Greaser for inscribing his grandmother’s recipes on chain “because the pie recipes will will give Bitcoin type two diabetes.”37 When Michael Tidwell asked on X what Pleb Slop even is, Luke answered it himself — the canonical moment the meme got defined by its chief accused practitioner.38

Enemies of Bitcoin

The guest “Muck Anic” — a self-described Knots foot soldier — turns the “decentralized” messaging blitz into a hierarchy with Luke at the top. Muck reports Luke “screams a lot. He’s he’s quite mean to me, to be honest, in private,” phones him screaming voice notes, and once accused him of stealing a Bitcoin book.39 Cornered on Luke’s openness to covenants, Muck applies his own enemy-of-Bitcoin test to his boss — “maybe he’s an enemy of Bitcoin” — then panics and begs Greaser to cut it, which Greaser refuses.40 Greaser then delivers the cleanest compression of the whole bit: “Well, he has saved Bitcoin at least three times. He’s working on his fourth right now.”41

The long war (2026)

The rivalry runs to the archive’s edge. Greaser reads Nic Carter‘s quantum campaign as career strategy — “Luke and mechanic have really presented a road map for how to take over Podkoff” by antagonizing your way onto the main stage.42 He accuses Luke of “lying” about prediction markets being a scam and cites Predyx putting BIP 110 activation at 13.6%.43 And in the rapture bit the filter war becomes protocol risk: Rod hopes “Luke will buy a c plus plus coding pack” for the plebs left behind so they can maintain the project.44

The war’s turn is a defeat. In In The Midst Of Madness, “it’s pretty wild that Rob Hamilton beat Luke” — and Greaser’s read is that the Knotzis “already socially hard forked” into irrelevance without needing a code fork.45 The Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces series then treats him as historical subject: Knots, “maintained by longtime developer” Luke Dashjr, “surged from around 2% of the network to more than 20% in a matter of months.”46 At the Maxi Madness victory spaces the stipulation is that Core owes the winner a closed BIP-110 pull request and a numbered ordinals BIP.47 The show’s final word on him, in a bonus essay, keeps the melodrama exactly as it started: a villain fingered by the pleb revolt, and “a heroic hero steps in to save the day, Luke, with mechanic as a spokesman” — who changes nothing structurally.48

From the Bugle newswire

The transcripts catch the hosts talking about Luke; the Bugleverse accounts’ X feed catches the character being reported on — a wire service covering a warlord who never gives a quote. Across the accounts the coverage sorts into a handful of standing beats, most of them running for years.

The Knots coin and the leaked fork

On the wire, the Core-versus-Knots war is a securities story. When the fork campaign peaks in late 2025 the Knots project is reported not as a client but as an altcoin with a leaked logo:

“JUST IN: The logo for ‘Knots Bitcoin’, a new digital asset proposed by Luke Dashjr, has leaked as proponents campaign for support to fork Bitcoin.” — @bitcoin_bugle, 2025-10-15

The framing is deliberate: the whole Knots position, rendered as a rival token to be listed rather than a soft fork to be argued. When the plan leaked in DMs, Rod Palmer ran defence by lowering the bar — the problem is the leak, not the plan:

“instead of gossiping and impeaching luke jr right now, take a look in the mirror and ask yourself if someone leaked YOUR texts or DMs of your plan to hard fork bitcoin, would anyone even take it seriously?” — @rodpalmerhodl, 2025-09-25

Even Saylor‘s vaguest praise gets read through the schism. When Saylor lauded “a talented, well intentioned developer,” the wire reported the denial before anyone made the claim:

“According to Knots community, Saylor’s remarks about a ‘talented, well intentioned developer trying to do something good’ were ‘obviously’ not about Luke Dashjr or Knots.” — @bitcoin_bugle, 2025-09-18

Node hygiene: peroxide, hantavirus, and the one-shotted runner

The wire’s richest running gag treats Luke’s spam-filtering as literal hygiene — the node as a body to be disinfected. It begins with a sync-time cleanse:

“Luke Dash Jr. Recommends dipping your Bitcoin node in hydrogen peroxide before syncing to cleanse it from spam.” — @bitcoin_bugle, 2025-08-23

and escalates, nine months later, into full pandemic protocol for hardware:

“#Bitcoin Knots CEO and #BIP110 spokesman Luke Dashjr tells plebs to begin masking and dipping their nodes in hydrogen peroxide to prevent the spread of hantavirus.” — @bitcoin_bugle, 2026-05-12

Rod supplies the counter-image: the Knots operator as a fragile convert who cannot survive contact with the timeline, forever waiting on his pope’s instructions.

“luke jr when he has to post step-by-step instructions for configuring a node again because another knots runner got one-shotted by a troll the second they came online and everyone is making fun of them in spaces” — @rodpalmerhodl, 2025-08-25

Eat your pets

The cat-eating that the hosts treat as offhand (“if you don’t believe that people should eat cats”) is, on the wire, a fully developed dietary platform. It predates most of the war — by 2023 the Bugle has Luke reorganising his life around it:

“Luke Dash Jr. Hard Forks BeefSteak To Focus On Eating Cats.” — @bitcoin_bugle, 2023-12-13

It is framed, straight-faced, as monetary policy — the pet as the last un-hyperbitcoinized asset:

“Luke Jr. Is already on this standard. If you want to see the world hyperbitcoinize, eat your pets.” — @bitcoin_bugle, 2024-03-26

By Thanksgiving 2025 the bit closes the loop with the miners themselves as the cookware:

“Bitcoin Knots dev Luke Dashjr shares photo of cats being cooked using Bitcoin miners for Thanksgiving dinner.” — @bitcoin_bugle, 2025-11-28

The platform even acquires a lobbyist: the wire has Trump citing Luke as a policy adviser — “Trump Promises To Legalize Eating Cats, Cites Luke Jr. As Adviser On Policy.”49

The cult of the smartest man

Where the show reads Luke as a dangerous saint, the accounts also document the worship from the inside — the pleb who takes the mystique entirely at face value. Rod runs the sincere-devotee register straight:

“when the smartest guy in the world speaks, i listen. same goes when the smartest guy in bitcoin (luke jr) speaks” — @rodpalmerhodl, 2025-10-11

The aspirational three-part creed slots him beside Samson Mow and Shinobi as the mind to imitate:

“dress like samson mow, love like shinobi, think like luke dashjr” — @rodpalmerhodl, 2025-08-19

His real-world autism diagnosis is treated as the audience’s baseline rather than the exception — the reason the satire keeps getting mistaken for a press release:

“It’s hard communicating satire to a demographic where Luke Dash Jr. autism is the norm.” — @bitcoin_bugle, 2023-11-08

and his debating style is lethal in the most literal way the wire can manage: “Man Suffers Sudden Death Syndrome Following Luke Dashjr Saying, ‘No U.’”50

BIP-110’s long crash-out

The wire tracks the soft fork as a prediction market that only ever ticks down. By early 2026 the coverage pairs the falling odds with the campaign’s tone:

“BIP-110’s chances of activating are trending to zero as prominent supporters Matthew Kratter & Luke Dashjr continue to crash out, accuse critics of being pedophiles. < 4% chance.” — @bitcoin_bugle, 2026-02-20

The Kratter alliance the show later logs as a purge target gets its origin story on the wire, as a résumé in decline:

“matthew kratter’s career trajectory: peter thiel’s head trader -> author of penny stock trading books -> luke dashjr’s head glazer” — @rodpalmerhodl, 2026-02-24

The stakes inflate to geopolitics — “Luke Dash Jr Claims That Successful Activation Of BIP 110 Will Cause The Straight Of Hormuz To Open”51 — while the day-to-day setbacks stay petty, pinned on the co-belligerent’s schedule: the Bugle reports Luke “Losing Confidence In Soft Fork Proposal’s Success Due To Dennis Porter‘s Absence.”52

Dispatches from the wire

The remainder of the file is the ambient absurd — a warlord covered like a minor head of state. Ocean is reported staffing up for his footwear (“rumored to be searching for a professional cobbler for Luke Dash Jr.”53); the Vatican beat has Trump “bashing Pope Leo in a Truth Social rant after private phone call with Luke Dashjr”54, a natural extension of his canonical sedevacantism; and Greaser files the unexplained sighting — “Luke Jr was spotted exiting at submarine at a port in Argentina.”55 Rod even runs the human-interest docket: “luke dashjr has filed for a restraining order against the tickle monster in the state of florida.”56 The through-line, as ever, is the ordinals war — which Rod reduces to a single act of faith: “If Luke Dashjr thinks Ordinals are an attack on Bitcoin, that’s good enough for me.”57

Note on the name

The ASR cannot spell him, and unlike most guests he is almost never on the show to be transcribed correctly — the beats are hosts talking about him. Across 49 episodes he appears as Luke Dash Junior, Luke Dasher, Lou Lou Dash, Luke Junior, Luke Scott, Luke Warner, Luke Dastier, Luke Dashcher, Deshir, Loop Junior, LoopDash Jr, Loupedash, Wuptash and blue dash. A name-match scan of this corpus recovers almost none of him; every beat above was resolved from what the passage says, not how it spelled him.

irl: Luke Dashjr is a real, long-tenured Bitcoin Core developer, maintainer of Bitcoin Knots, famous both for deep protocol contributions and for losing 200+ BTC in a December 2022 breach of his personal setup. He is a devout traditionalist (sedevacantist) Catholic, ran the Ocean mining pool, and has led the campaign to filter non-monetary data — Ordinals, inscriptions, the OP_RETURN size limit — out of Bitcoin. The Fyre Wallet, the salary figures, and the hotel-bar anecdote are the satire’s inventions or exaggerations layered on that real record.

Footnotes

  1. Bugle News, 2023-03-06 — “Luke Dash-JR to Launch Bitcoin Storage Solution”. ↩

  2. Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 16:20 — Rod: “Luke has a credibility problem when it comes to security because he lost over 200 Bitcoin.” The Eric Wall attribution and Ocean-origin follow in the same segment. ↩

  3. Bugle Weekly 8 @ 7:18 — the ASR renders Knots as “Naught” and the name as “Luke Dash Junior.” ↩

  4. Bugle Weekly 9 @ 1:07:09 — “If you wanna live in Luke Dash Junior’s citadel”; Rod’s “autistic Catholicism” is at 1:07:28. ↩

  5. Bugle Weekly 30 @ 41:44 — “transaction abortion” is the show’s name for replace-by-fee; “Lou Lou Dash” is the ASR. ↩

  6. Bugle Weekly 10 @ 3:44 — the Alpha Protocol ad read; “Luke Dasher” is the ASR. ↩

  7. Bugle Weekly 19 @ 38:40 — Rod names the retreat cast: “Robert Breedlove teaching people like, Peter McCormack, Luke Dasher, Pallidder.” ↩

  8. Bugle Weekly 45 @ 59:04 — the invitation (“we’d like to have you on behind the podcast”) lands at 59:44; the “doesn’t speak in metaphors” reasoning at 59:23. ↩

  9. Bugle Weekly 45 @ 39:48 — Greaser; the Dashjr link is inferred from Rod’s preceding Knots/Ocean cue at 39:37, medium confidence. ↩

  10. BTP 1 @ 28:50 — Sly calls him “a interesting dude” (28:32) and diagnoses “they might think that Bitcoin hasn’t won yet.” ↩

  11. BTP 17 @ 32:17 — the vest one-liner “just in case” that Tatum froze on is at 35:50; the ASR gives “Wuptash,” “Loupedash,” “blue dash,” “Luke Warner.” ↩

  12. Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 15:55 — the alleged two-year kill switch, reframed as charity to boomers. ↩

  13. Bugle Weekly 58 @ 19:56 — Palmer; Luke resolved from the filtering/wife-covering context, medium confidence. ↩

  14. Bugle Weekly 59 @ 4:21 — “the Nazis” is the ASR for Knotzis; the creed follows at 4:26. ↩

  15. Scaling With Paper Bitcoin @ 36:04 — the sedevacantism and pope-replacement thread runs from 36:23 to 37:14. ↩

  16. BTP 26 @ 23:52 — restated at 1:08:33; the guest is “Stu,” who has no page yet. ↩

  17. BTP 26 @ 27:05 — “maybe the weakness of Luke is that he doesn’t podcast” at 26:20. ↩

  18. Bugle Weekly 79 @ 10:51 — quote spans to 10:55; “Luke Scott, Roman Catholic” is the ASR at 10:40. ↩

  19. BTP 16 @ 51:41 — Greaser’s inventory of Mechanic’s assets (“a British accent… a whole psyop”) follows. ↩

  20. Bugle Weekly 60 @ 35:26 — “every core dev will have a slew of influencers. So Luke has mechanic.” ↩

  21. Bugle Weekly 60 @ 33:23 — Luke’s bench (mechanic, “Justin Bessel,” “Telmer,” “Canute,” “Daniel Prince”) is inventoried at 34:14 against a crashing-out Shinobi. ↩

  22. Bugle Weekly 60 @ 41:51 — the cue is mangled (“The dungs are Luke Luke’s bat now” ≈ “The thing is, Luke’s fat now”); the payoff “fat Luke… loses his mystique” is at 42:00, medium confidence. ↩

  23. BTP 27 @ 34:25 — “plaives” is the ASR for plebs; the hierarchy continues with Adam Back and Shinobi at 34:47–36:38. Paul Sports dismantles the “money not file storage” slogan at 1:41:23, noting every Bitcoin transaction is already a file. ↩

  24. BTP 22 @ 7:48 — Rod’s setup (“2,013… 2,017. Luke saved Bitcoin”) at 7:36; Portland Hodl concedes at 8:09. ↩

  25. Bugle Weekly 81 @ 1:24:06 — the credential appeal named as fallacy. ↩

  26. Bugle Weekly 77 @ 5:26 — “It’s not Adam Back or Luke Junior” at 5:30; the “Bitcoin Core is an institution… a story” thesis at 5:35–5:47. ↩

  27. Bugle Weekly 76 @ 20:23 — “Luke has been a part of that” (the Core institution) at 20:14 is the live tension. ↩

  28. Bugle Weekly 73 @ 29:44 — “court devs” is the ASR for core devs. ↩

  29. Bugle Weekly 85 @ 21:40 — completes at 21:44 (“a year salary at ocean”) and 21:50 (“That’s an elite salary”). ↩

  30. Bugle Weekly 87 @ 41:25 — Greaser adds “I don’t think Luke or mechanic are getting invited” at 41:34; Palmer: “Those guys are buzzkills.” ↩

  31. Bugle Weekly 80 @ 3:41 — “LoopDash Jr” and “entities ordinals” are the ASR; the sentence opens “Bitcoin died because someone somewhere removed” at 3:38. ↩

  32. BTP 26 @ 22:12 — Stu reads BIP 444 as “death death death”; the pull request is announced as real in Bugle Weekly 82 @ 4:03 (“The Pled activated Slop Fork pull request” — a UASF pun, not Pledditor). ↩

  33. BTP 14 @ 1:38:36 — Erin’s diagnosis; Richard’s counterpart take (“so autistic that he doesn’t understand nuance”) at 1:39:18. Richard’s astrology jab (“He doesn’t like ordinals. He doesn’t like astrology”) is at 16:49. ↩

  34. BTP 19 @ 20:02 — premise (“pornography is anything that is sexually arousing”) at 19:55; Charlie Spears completes the joke at 20:39. ↩

  35. Bugle Weekly 88 @ 33:51 — Richard’s counter (“many members of the state are actually users and fans of CSAM”) at 33:00. ↩

  36. Bugle Weekly 82 @ 37:15 — Rod’s expansion (“up at 01:00 in the morning in the Swiss bar”) at 37:22. ↩

  37. Bugle Weekly 82 @ 1:01:28 — quote crosses a speaker boundary, Rod to Greaser; “Deshir” is the ASR at 1:01:46. ↩

  38. BTP 26 @ 1:06:49 — read live off X; “plug slot” is the ASR for pleb slop. The Heaven Money podcast prescription follows at 1:10:36. ↩

  39. Bugle Weekly 88 @ 7:11 — “it does generally go from Luke” at 7:02; the book-theft accusation at 7:16. Muck Anic has no page yet. ↩

  40. Bugle Weekly 88 @ 57:29 — the retraction and “He’s also my boss” follow at 57:35–57:45. ↩

  41. Bugle Weekly 88 @ 57:49 — Muck’s marvel “who would have thunk it?” at 57:55. ↩

  42. Bugle Weekly 90 @ 16:45 — “Podkoff” is the house rendering of PodConf; Carter’s stated ambition to debate on the main stage follows at 16:56. ↩

  43. Bugle Weekly 96 @ 41:17 — the 13.6% figure at 41:25; “Luke” resolved from the Knots/BIP-110/scam context. ↩

  44. Bugle Weekly 98 @ 57:23 — Rod’s “c plus plus coding pack for all the… plants who were left behind after the rapture” at 56:43. ↩

  45. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 31:44 — “It’s pretty wild that Rob Hamilton beat Luke” at 31:36. ↩

  46. The Capture (Pleb Slop Pulitzer Ep 1) @ 0:40 — Luke named “Luke Dastier” at 0:38 as the longtime Knots maintainer. Notgrubles is placed on Luke’s side of the filter war in Pleb Slop Pulitzer Ep 2 @ 2:09 (“Luke Dashcher”). ↩

  47. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 1:01:14 — Erin’s account of the championship stipulation. ↩

  48. Freedom Is Disorganized (Bonus) @ 13:36 — “Luke” favoured over Luke Broyles from the BIP-110/core-dev context, medium confidence. The heavier CSAM/sin framing recurs at Bugle Weekly 117 @ 2:06. ↩

  49. @bitcoin_bugle, 2024-09-11 — “BREAKING: Trump Promises To Legalize Eating Cats, Cites Luke Jr. As Adviser On Policy.” ↩

  50. @bitcoin_bugle, 2024-01-23 — “BREAKING: Man Suffers Sudden Death Syndrome Following Luke Dashjr Saying, ‘No U’.” ↩

  51. @bitcoin_bugle, 2026-07-03 — “Straight Of Hormuz” is the account’s spelling. ↩

  52. @bitcoin_bugle, 2025-12-09 — “Just In: Luke Dash Jr. States He Is Losing Confidence In Soft Fork Proposal’s Success Due To Dennis Porter’s Absence.” ↩

  53. @bitcoin_bugle, 2025-09-10 — “@ocean_mining rumored to be searching for a professional cobbler for Luke Dash Jr.” ↩

  54. @bitcoin_bugle, 2026-04-13 — “BREAKING: Trump bashes Pope Leo in Truth Social rant after private phone call with Luke Dashjr.” ↩

  55. @GreaserRichard, 2025-06-10 — “Luke Jr was spotted exiting at submarine at a port in Argentina.” ↩

  56. @rodpalmerhodl, 2026-05-25. ↩

  57. @rodpalmerhodl, 2024-05-20 — “During Covid Luke famously identified the real threats and ignored the fake ones. I trust his instincts.” ↩