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I have been seeing some claims that "Bitcoin Knots is part of the Bitcoin Core project", that "Bitcoin Knots is just another release of Bitcoin Core", and that "Bitcoin Knots has more contributors than Bitcoin Core".

Bitcoin Core has about 40 regular contributors with over a thousand past contributors. The Bitcoin Core project releases its software on bitcoincore.org. Bitcoin Core releases are signed by several Bitcoin Core contributors and other community members. Releases are attested to by this community.

Bitcoin Core’s source code is released under the MIT License. The MIT License is a permissive open-source license permitting anyone to do almost anything with the licensed code.

Bitcoin Knots is a project fork of Bitcoin Core. Bitcoin Knots appears to be developed by a single developer pushing directly to master without peer review. Bitcoin Knots releases are composed of Bitcoin Core’s source code modified with a patch set of about 1400 commits. The same individual unilaterally issues releases. There is no indication that anyone else has ever contributed code or review directly to Bitcoin Knots. Bitcoin Knots is not endorsed by the Bitcoin Core project.

Claims to the contrary appear to be based on a unique individual perception of reality.
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Ple₿ Num₿er 12 7mo ago

Interesting read, I haven’t checked but heard they are 99% the same, what is the difference between knots and core then?

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Murch 7mo ago

About 28,000 differing lines of code across 550 files and 1400 commits

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Ple₿ Num₿er 12 7mo ago

Wow, is it easy to outline the main differences or not? I am running knots now but it is really hard as a non-coder to know what to do essentially you’re just taking sides where you can’t verify the truth yourself

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Murch 7mo ago

For context, Bitcoin Core has something like 240'000 lines of c++ code.

I don't intend to take the time to go through someone of that magnitude, but if you want to take a look, here's the diff: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/compare/28.x...bitcoinknots:bitcoin:28.x-knots

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Ple₿ Num₿er 12 7mo ago

Thanks, appreciate it

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Ple₿ Num₿er 12 7mo ago

Tried to zap you, but you didn’t have a wallet set up