Mechanic has not contributed code, but you can’t say he hasn’t contributed. So if you want to be technically correct you can be, but this is a moot point for me.

So let’s take this in stages as I understand it, and I’ve only listened to Mechanic and read Antoine’s summary and listened to people like Adam Back and supporters.

Mechanic was not blocked on GitHub until this OP_RETURN discussion came about.

There is a disagreement, this isn’t a technical discussion, this is a functional discussion. If you don’t listen to people who disagree with you, you fall into a hole that has no escape.

I’m a node runner, I don’t choose to allow an unlimited size OP_RETURN, I am changing all 3 of my production nodes and both my test nodes as I write. I may not have understood this fully from the Core side of the argument, but they choose not to engage with people like me, so I’m not hearing their argument.

If Bitcoin core doesn’t convince the 20,000 to 60,000 node runners like me and we all switch to Knots, Core dies.

Jameson Lopp and Peter Todd become irrelevant.