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Imagine there's a bar of gold in a secure box that only unlocks for you, but this box is somewhere in an Olympic sized facility that is completely dark.

Obviously you want the gold (so you can sell it and buy more Bitcoin), but you don't know how to get the gold.

There are people who are with the gold right now. There are other boxes with a bar of gold that only opened for them and all the boxes are in the same place. In other words, they're exactly where you want to be.

The people who are where you want to be can really expedite the process of everyone finding their way to this place but most people are polarized towards service to the self, not service to others, so once they get theirs, they turn their attention to the next thing they can get for themselves.

I have Core 28 running. It says I've downloaded Knots. I have absolutely no fucking idea how to make Knots run instead of Core on my node. No fucking clue. Zero guidance is available on the node's operating software which, given how big a fucking deal this issue apparently is, it would be nice if the node software devs were responsive to this issue.

I would bet that these node software devs have never normie tested their shit. I would bed they've never asked a normie to take a Core node and convert it to a Knots node before. They don't like doing this kind of testing because it reveals to them how shitty and inconsiderate their designs are. Devs are super smart and they don't like it when dumb fuck normies reveal how out of touch the Devs are with the everyday user. Nobody likes to be confronted with their mistakes, but frankly, if you want the masses running your shit you need to make your shit runnable by the masses.

I think Start9 has a bug that shows bitcoin core as being installed even after you selected knotts to run.

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I don't know if that's the issue I am dealing with or not.

All I know is that Core is running and I've downloaded....specifically downloaded and only downloaded...Knots. I cannot progress beyond that. No idea how.

My setup shows this. I know that knotts is installed however.

Start9 sees them as the same app. If you see knots in your services list you’re good.

It was confusing because the install button on Knots doesn’t appear until you uninstall Core. I barely know how to do anything on a node let alone UNinstall something. That’s brand new territory for me. Doing things with nodes is the most advanced computer shit that a lot of Bitcoiners will ever do especially when considering the financial implications of screwing up.

The problem is that the Knots screen needs to have an Install button whether or not Core is already running. If Core is already running, the Install button on Knots needs to still be present but it needs to be greyed out and inactive and next to it needs to be text that reads something like “to install Knots, uninstall Core by selecting Core, scrolling down to the Actions menu, and selecting Uninstall”.

That would be clean.

It will be clearer in the next version of StartOS.

There is a way to install Knots over Core.

On the start9 settings screen tap “MANAGE” 5 times. This activates dev mode. No you’ll see “reinstall” available for knots and core. When finished tap the “MANAGE” heading 5 times to turn of dev mode.