That's ridiculous. Stop listening to people like Matthew who are being hysterical & haven't been around bitclin long enough. He's blowing this way out of proprtion to all his viewers who are mostly newer to bitcoin than he is.
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I think Matthew is right, Bitcoin Core Devs have lost their way. They can turn their backs on Node Runners at their own peril. 
That's fine you are free to choose but you should read up on Knots & Luke Dashjr, don't just trust what Matthew is telling you.
That's good advice and I take you up on it. Going by his recent actions, he seems far more trustworthy than Core.
I don't doubt his sincerity but he is blowing this way out of proportion and not doing his viewers favours by encouraging them to go over to Knots without giving them any history on Luke or problems with Knots. It's also extremely bad form to encourage people to stop donating to OpenSats and HRF (two excellent organizations) as he did earlier this week.
The thing that worries me most is the banning of Mechanic from the forum (that rightly pointed out a conflict of interest).
How do you justify this behaviour from btc core?
I don't agree with it but that's the thing, the way the issue has been handled by Core is worse than the issue itself. However Bitcoin Mechanic was stirring up stuff two years ago and is coming across as a bit of a drama queen. He shouldn't have been banned though.
I agree with you that the way the issue has been managed is worse than the issue itself, that is also my point of focus.
If this is the way devs deal with issues and opposing voices itβs worrying as fuck
I imagine many of the Core developers don't agree with the banning but unless I'm mistaken Knots has just one developer and that's Luke and Luke has very strong (& some extremely odd) opinions. I've had a back & forth with him on Twitter some years ago (not about bitcoin) and he was willing to engage & he didn't get in a huff & block me so that's good but a one man development team might be viewed as an autocracy. π€·ββοΈ
Totally agree that a one-man dev team is an autocracy, and donβt love the idea of it, but core is simply forcing many people to switch to knots.
More than being about knots being better, is about it being less worse than core (which is acting in a horrible way which is obvious to everyone, it is obvious that there is no consensus in this issue so why keep forcing it?). Hopefully theyβll get their shit together