Great question.
Maybe because you dont want to download the whole chain again? I dunno .. I went from no node to Knots.
Finer question ... why go from 29 to 30?
Whats the incentive?
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No need to redownload the chain again in order to switch btw. Not advocating for one side or the other, just pointing that out.
Agree with above👆. No need to redownload the chain or reindex. Just run the other binary
OK, great technical input.
So easy to switch to Knots !
Have you guys ever spun up a 2nd Node on a 2nd machine and just copied over the files containing the chain? Downloading the blockchain took me forever.