This from the man who got hacked. Even if that was opsec, he is hardly someone to follow. I believe in a lot of what is being said here but too many are blindly following an idiot. Has the core team overstepped their remit? Possibly. Has the knots team fixed a perceived problem? Definitely knot! As stated earlier, it is miners that decide, not nodes. If 85% of nodes ran knots, then you may have a say, until then knots is just going to create problems.
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That “idiot” gave you Lightning and practically won us the Blocksize war. He could be weird, but he’s not an idiot. He got hacked because to some extent he’s suffering from the same issue other devs do: engineering syndrome. He got overconfident about his opsec/skills and got rekt. Core devs are evidently going down the same road today: introducing “fixes” without any regard for second and third order effects. They’ll end up rekt someday in a similar fashion. The question is will they drag us along with them.