If the best thing the CIA can come up with is putting jpegs on the blockchain in order to sabotage bitcoin I think we are safe.

I'm all for choice of nodes to run and filtering if people want. I have nothing against Knots, it is afterall bitcoin core with a couple of added filters. I'm not so sure trusting one person to maintain a node is particularly wise, what makes you think that is better than lots of people maintaing a node? Who is to say Luke isn't compromised? The guy had 200 coins stolen. He kept them on a fucking laptop and you trust him to build (well add patches to Core) and maintain the node you run. All the accusations agains Core are unfounded and dumb, & idiots like Kratter are just stirring up shit & leading naive people astray. It's reminiscent of Roger Ver in 2017 & look how that worked out for the people who believed him.