Luke Dashjr, leader of the Bitcoin Knots project, has denied allegations of planning a Bitcoin hard fork following leaked messages that caused a stir in the crypto community. The controversy arose after tech outlet TheRage reported that Dashjr considered a temporary hard fork to protect node operators from CSAM, following changes in Bitcoin Core v30's mempool defaults. Dashjr dismissed the report as 'fake news,' despite TheRage's claim of verifying the screenshots with video proof. The situation has drawn attention from senior Bitcoin developer Adam Back, who linked the report to legal theories from Dashjr's mining pool, OCEAN. However, skepticism remains high on social media, and Dashjr has not responded to requests for comment from Protos.