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I'm in favour of Bitcoin ossification.

That is, no more "improvements".

No further changes to the Bitcoin protocol or the incentives that drive it.

Bitcoin core software still requires maintenance. This is a boring & thankless task & I'm grateful to the Devs that take it on. I think this is where the support for Bitcoin Core is aimed at.

Small changes to the incentives can have a massive impact to how Bitcoin operates. Nobody can predict what downstream effects will arise from removing or increasing the OP_RETURN filter from the bulk of validating nodes. The downplaying & trivialising of these effects is concerning.

I will not be upgrading my node software unless there's a compelling reason to do so.

I'm never running knots.

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Makes perfect sense. I'm not convinced that ossification would be great. Last time I looked into it, there seemed to be legitimate improvements in covenants and it's possible we could unlock greater scaling solutions at some point in the future.

However, if I had to choose between keeping Bitcoin as is or potentially fucking it up I would pick the conservative route every time.