While the animosity and potential sensationalist approach in the videos and comments are a bit out of place, they're irrelevant. On the other hand, everyone is using Bitcoin for their benefit, and that's fine; it's how it should be. This isn't charity.

Now, what is very relevant and important are the arguments presented for the decentralization of software (Core) to run Bitcoin. With approximately 96% acceptance and use of the software, Bitcoin Core is a natural monopoly that arose by free choice given its quality, ease of use, and stability on the network.

However, it is positive that a competitor (Knots), which gives more autonomy to users who have a node, participates and proposes solutions and more effective control by the owner of each node, something that Core doesn't do and simply has to run what the developers decide. Decentralization and decision-making regarding private property (the node) must always be respected, and if there is software that provides the user with more tools and greater decision-making, then all the better.

There is also the issue of a single developer managing Knots, which is centralization and has greater ease of being corruptible and responding to interests outside of Bitcoin's philosophy, it is a real risk, which at the same time can be mitigated by balancing Knots with Core, where the two software run with the same consensus rules, but are independent of each other, creating counterweights in case one or the other takes a wrong direction or one that harms Bitcoin and its users. In the end, and as it should always be, the decision is up to each of the people who will freely and voluntarily decide what software to run on their node.

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