Great points. I think the increased awareness is a positive thing. Whether it’s core v knots or both v 10 others I think freedom of choice is important. And removing configurability, removes choice. I challenge all those people saying spam is just data to post their personal emails online, remove the spam filters and see how much they like that.
Been thinking about the Core/#Knots debate.
Going back to first principles and Satoshi's Bitcoin Whitepaper:
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
- First Principle 1: Bitcoin is a monetary network
"peer-to-peer electronic cash"
- First Principle 2: "Honest" nodes secure the network
"The system is secure as long as honest nodes collectively control more CPU power than any cooperating group of attacker nodes."
- First Principle 3: Nodes keep the network decentralized
"peer-to-peer"
- First Principle 4: Bitcoin must remain decentralized and secure to function as a monetary network
Bitcoin, as it was originally intended ("peer-to-peer electronic cash"), dissolves the false illusion of fiat by imposing Universal Laws in service to humanity and thus transforms the world.
Bitcoin Core v30 Related to:
- First Principle 1: Violates Bitcoin as a monetary network by welcoming larger non-monetary data on to the blockchain
- First Principle 2: Compromises Bitcoin's security when nodes become public data storage forced to hold and relay illegal content uploaded to the blockchain by bad actors
- First Principle 3: Compromises decentralization when it becomes too expensive, too complex, or illegal for regular individuals to run a node because the blockchain is bloated with non-monetary / illegal data
- First Principle 4: Bitcoin is no longer a decentralized or secure monetary network if the previous first principles are violated
Bitcoin, as storage for .jpegs and other non-monetary content, becomes a shitcoin.
Core is not Bitcoin; we are Bitcoin.
There is a thin line between "Bitcoin will be fine" and "we need to act to keep Bitcoin fine." The simple solution is to vote with your node 🧡
On a positive note:
- This debate is strengthening Bitcoin as a monetary network; it is getting more plebs involved, running and actively managing their nodes.
- It has made the issue of centralized mining more visible to the community and invited more plebs to run solominers.
- It has also provided excellent signal! I'm grateful to be connecting with a lot more nodes who deeply care about this protocol for humanity and know what Bitcoin entails far beyond "1s and 0s"⚡️✨
For more info, would recommend these videos:
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