Overview

• The Rage alleged on Sept. 25 that Dashjr backed a hard fork to create a trusted multisig committee able to alter the blockchain and remove illicit content, citing leaked messages including the line, “Either Bitcoin dies or we have to trust someone.”
• Dashjr denied proposing any hard fork, called the reports slanderous and fabricated, and reiterated in multiple posts that “There is no hard fork.”
• Udi Wertheimer defended Dashjr, labeling the story a hit piece and arguing the leaked messages reflected a hypothetical discussion about using zero-knowledge proofs to let Knots nodes avoid downloading “spam.”
• Bitcoin fell about 2.2% to roughly $109,000 during the controversy, with coverage noting no proven link between the price move and the allegations.
• The dispute resurfaced client-policy tensions as Knots blocks non-financial data like Ordinals and Runes while Core tolerates such data if it does not break consensus, and there remains no verified proposal or plan to implement a committee hard fork.