Luke Dashjr Resigns From OCEAN Ahead Of Bitcoin Hard Fork

Luke Dashjr has resigned as chairman and chief technology officer of Bitcoin mining pool OCEAN, and the company repurchased all of his equity. He now calls the main Bitcoin chain “Spamcoin,” according to BeInCrypto, as a Bitcoin hard fork he backs is set to switch to BLAKE2b on Tuesday. OCEAN’s hashrate fell 96% in August after it routed customer power to a minority chain for about 18 hours, while BTC trades near $77,655.