It explains his otherwise irrational disdain for Core and the motivation to take a technical issue and morph it into drama on social media.
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Maybe, just maybe, take a look how plebs started running knots because many people are not happy how the op return thing is being handled. Blaming it on personal issues with core devs does not make it magically a non-issue.
Yes, the drama was successful in capturing some people's attention and convincing them that running Knots is a solution.
You are also assuming that his ‘apparent suspicion’ is not warranted. What if we steal man this POV, would his position therefore be justified? I mean, if someone actually did steal his coin from a core dev, that WOULD be quite a serious thing, right? And why are we dismissing the possibility?
Core lost the battle in the court of public opinion, snd for good reason
That’s not all that matters, but it matters a lot
No they didn't, only for a few loud voices. Most others would rather run software that's being developed and audited by 100 top notch devs.
This isn't a smart form of protest but everybody do what pleases them.
The number of new knots nodes says otherwise
And the rest of people that run nodes probably don’t even know about the disagreement and just click update on Core the same way they update iOS
It can be 1000 devs developing Core, it doesn’t make what they are doing good for node runners
They do a really good job in keeping your node safe. You can verify that.
Safety is not the issue tho. They are prioritizing miners instead of node runners. It’s not their job to male sure miners get the most money or to cater to people wanting to use the network for non monetary users.
I’m not gonna rehash the debate, there’s plenty of videos on that already. All I’m saying is that the growth of nodes running Knots is a signal that informed node runners do not agree with Core’s actions.
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Plebs are running knots because they lack the technical understanding of how this actually effects Bitcoin and are just following the crowd doing what they feel is the right thing to do. In other words, it's virtue signalling.
That's one opinion. The other side will say other things.
Running an alternative client because you're angry at an unsolvable computer science problem doesn't sound like a great solution to me.
In short: plebs overcompensating.
And 'the more you suffer, the more it shows you really care.' there's a reason why people switch back from Knots to Core after a while, quietly.
Actually seems pretty rational to me. He may be wrong but he certainly has reasons to question their integrity.
Yeh so he has a past gripe, other folks trying to politik for the change have a present and future benefit with your shitcoinery and easier dickbutts.
Not saying you’re wrong or Luke is wrong but you have incentives to be irrational too