Morning Edition · Monday, August 31, 2026Published at 1:50 AM EDT · New York

Luke Dashjr Leaves the OCEAN Mining Pool He Co-Founded, and Takes His Argument Elsewhere

OCEAN produced 2.45 percent of blocks in the trailing day after buying out its co-founder, while the new pool Dashjr is associated with has disclosed no operational footprint.

Luke Dashjr, a long-standing Bitcoin Core contributor, has left OCEAN, the mining pool he helped found, after the pool bought out his stake. OCEAN was built on a specific technical claim: that miners, not pool operators, should construct th…