Oh wow, I didn't know all this was going on in the background... It's a bit scary when Bitcoin Core devs behave this way. At least I know what to look out for when updating my node...
All I’d say is just take your time and watch this from start to finish. It will answer probably all of your questions: https://youtu.be/15biQH1H140
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Mechanic and a bunch of others have been going at it with the spammers for two years straight. Now it’s all coming down to this.
Right, I paid attention to it when the inscriptions started but I ignored the op_return stuff...
I am happy now to be running Knots, which I installed for being able to solo mine through my own Datum server, but now I understand it's so much more important than that, and we need to bring more node runners to run Knots..!