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ABH3PO

Lets say knots is at 100% usage, but someone still adds CSAM to the timechain (because they'd still be able to)

Will the knots users stop running rheir nodes?

Akashi Hyogo 3mo ago

https://petertodd.org/2025/opentimestamps-and-knots-ocean

'Hypothetical: Knots No Longer Relays OP_Return Transactions: (...)

At the moment, no released version of Bitcoin Core or any known fork of Bitcoin Core (Knots and Libre Relay) propagates transactions paying a fee-rate less than 1 sat/vB. Yet, at the moment, both of my Alice and Bob calendars are producing transactions with sub-1-sat/vB fee-rates. Even though something like 99% of Bitcoin nodes reject these transactions, they get to miners just fine.

As Satoshi said in the initial announcement, “[Bitcoin] takes advantage of the nature of information being easy to spread but hard to stifle”.

Since it only takes a single path to get a transaction — information — to a miner willing to mine it, for an actively maintained operation like the OpenTimestamps calendars, it is exceptionally difficult to prevent transactions from getting to miners by simply running nodes that reject those transactions.'

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Akashi Hyogo 3mo ago

It is of near 0 consequence of what knots users do or don't do... Don't be afraid of them. Embrace them.

Knots is not about filtering smap. It is about signalling that we don't like spam.

You say signalling is stupid? Our whole society works 99% on signalling alone. Autists don't like it, but rest of people (99%) follow it.

ABH3PO 3mo ago

This is an artificial regulation, regulations corrupt natural incentives. Im not on any "side", you can chose to pick any "side" you want, but every side has consequences.