I also think we should remove knobs that don’t do the thing people think it does.
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As someone who has been running a node since 2010 i have had almost no reason to tweak the data carrier size, as it’s completely inconsequential to anything i would ever care about
I know me changing this has zero effect on the data that actually gets into a block, so who cares other than a small fluctuation in memory use?
Must you impose your preferred policy on everyone else? Or is there room for others to choose their own policy?
customizing policy is a very niche thing imo, like if you have a memory constrained system or something. By all means you can tweak the knobs if you want, but i will continue to point out how pointless it is
YES!!! This is how both parties win.
One side keeps the option to customize.
The other side points out how pointless it is.
My actual thoughts on Bitcoin controversies. Use the tools.
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Very good point, i suspect many people throwing themselves into these debates don’t even run nodes or understand what any of the settings on their node does
What about the argument that "99% of the OP_RETURN txns were/are <= 80bytes"?
That's a common talking point Knots folks bring up. Has any Core supporter put forth the data to refute that?
Could there possibly be any unforeseen consequences to this change?
Consequences are low here... its not like we are removing knobs from an airplane that could crash and kill innocent people if turned the wrong way. Lots of people (thousands at least) understand what these knobs do... why shouldn't we be able to turn them?
you can but it will have no real effect on your node or what gets in a block, so it just seems like dead code to me which is a maintenance burden. We should be moving toward a simpler and streamlined node over time.
I am much more excited for multiprocess for this reason. A lot more flexibility when it comes to attaching different frontends to a daemon. It’s crazy to me that people are talking about this useless knob vs actually useful things
lol yes, this is a pretty pointless debate in all honesty. obviously its a debate about principles, which it why everyone got so passionate about it IMHO.
This is the part the core sycophants don’t understand. People don’t like having functionality stripped away - especially to support bad actors. And the fee incentive is already there to not use op return so the sophisticated actors won’t anyway. Now the rationale is “maintenance burden”. 🤣 GTFO
If core can push through this pointless (in their own words) change without support then why couldn’t they push through other more malicious changes? THAT is the issue and THAT is the debate. People don’t feel like core can be trusted any longer.