Zero Core/Knots dev funding.
Stop funding people who are actively trying to change Bitcoin or adding new features. If you don't take humans out of the equation, it will lead to corruption down the line, always.
Discussion
You want developers to work for free?
I want no changes on Bitcoin. Nothing to work on. No developers needed.
I don't want any major changes either. However, software always needs to be maintained. Software is never final.
Removing the OP_RETURN limit is not 'maintenance'.
Bitcoin needs to ossify, because you can't trust humans (developers). They will use the excuse of 'maintenance' to implement new changes/features with unknown consequences, on every new update.
You're right. I don't like those changes either, but saying developers don't need funding is saying that developers should maintain their software for free. That's not right either.
That's not saying that at all. It's saying don't pay the people that remove the value from the software.
The only maintenance that should exist in Core should be major bugs/security fixes. Nothing else.
What we have right now is a bunch of over-funded and possibly corrupted developers who are pushing UNNECESSARY new features/changes on every new Core update for many years now.
Knots exists because Core kept changing things people didn't agree with. Eventually the same will happen with Knots, and everyone will jump ship again.
This is not a war between Core VS Knots.
It's a war between those who trust humans (developers) and those who don't (the ones who want Bitcoin to ossify).
I want to ossify Bitcoin too but no one will work for free to maintain it. It will become stagnant and become vulnerable given a long enough timeline.
Everyone working on Core who push for new features/changes and are pro removing OP_RETURN limit should be defunded, and only be given money for their individual bug/security fixes contributions if they ever make them.
#OssifyOrDie
Corruption in bitcoin is not the context we have ever seen when talking about things getting corrupted. How would that even take place? Only if older versions stop working with the newer ones which is a hard fork in itself.
If we don't maintain #Bitcoin, eventually it will stop working
Would Bitcoin stop working if we didn't had the Taproot softfork? No.
Will Bitcoin stop working if we don't update Bitcoim Core to v30 with all the OP_RETURN filters removed? No.
If something severe comes up that makes Bitcoin "stop working", then you make the necessary changes, otherwise ossify.