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I truly, genuinely hope you're right.
it's just a meme, I don't think that will actually happen
Do you think the chain will fork?
No. Also, it's just a meme, I don't think Knots will become dominant.
I get it, I'm just inviting some speculation and conversation. I'm curious to what will happen in the case Knots doesn't become dominant. With two main sets of rules running, will the chain not create orphaned blocks often?
the current iteration of Knots has the same set of consensus rules as bitcoin
the only differences are what you allow into the mempool, not what you allow into blocks
but my hope is that a big switch to knots serves as an indicator that the people are ready for a soft fork to fight spam, e.g. a blocksize decrease, or prohibiting op_returns with a datacarrier value, or prohibiting OP_0 OP_IF in a script
Interesting! That detail about the mempool is new to me.
The rest is sort of Greek. Do I understand you correct when I say you hope a big switch to Knots servers as an indicator that node runners are ready for a soft fork to fight spam, similar to fighting an increase in blocksize, AND prohibiting the removal of OP limits?
Yes except I am okay with modifying the op-return limits, just in the opposite direction. Instead of making the limits more permissive, I'd like to make them more restrictive.
I'm continuoisly doing research on this, and what I've heard and read so far nudges me in that direction, too.
What if we went the other direction and changed concensus rules to fight spam?
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Obviously the devs of core didn't really like what they were doing anyway.
It was time for a change and now it's only a matter for when core goes the way of the dodo.
Core doesn’t care.
But they can’t ignore the consequences.