Bitcoin Devs Spark Backlash Over ‘Legal Threat’ in Soft Fork Proposal

[ed]

A new Bitcoin improvement proposal (BIP) by core developer Luke Dashjr has set off outrage on X after lines in the draft suggested there could be “legal or moral consequences” for rejecting the soft fork.
The proposal seeks to limit on-chain data to block illegal content after the Bitcoin Core v30 update — but critics like Peter Todd and Alex Thorn called the wording “an attack on Bitcoin.”

[kelson10]

Legal threats in open-source discussions? That’s a dangerous precedent for the Bitcoin ecosystem. ️

[alex10]

Instead of uniting developers, this proposal seems to be fueling even more tension. 🧠