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No worries man anytime. I actually agree with Core on increasing the op-return limit (because I want the market to push scams out rather than force it "by law", I think is the best possible and long-lasting defense). But the way core handled the issue is very worrying because:

1- it was very much a "this is technical issue, you are not technical so you have no opinion in the matter, and we are doing it withouth checking what the community think first. Also let's ban people and close the discussion". This approach leds only to misery in the long.term

2- statements from core devs like "btc is not money is a database for whatever" and "scams don't exist, if they pay fee it's a valid transcation like any other" are worrying as fuck, what the fuck is this shit all of a sudden?

So even if core was right in the "what", it was incredibly wrong in the "how and why" (and in my opinion is the "how and why" that bring success in the long-term) and this is why I switched to Knots, to send a signal to core that they need to really reconsider their approach and to help decentralized away from core monopoly

To conclude, we always say that btc is an ego challenge first and foremost. After having Knots going from less than 1% to 15% in not even 2 months, and Ocean pool doubling its hashrate in the same period, I was hoping for a statement from core like "ok we realized we could have handled the situation better and we see the feedback from the community". This would have earned core 1000 points in respect and regained some trust. Instead they seem to ignore completely and stick to their initial stance that "everything was handled perfectly", seems a childish and arrogant behaviour. So for me is neither a technical nor a political issue, it's a an approach-behavioural issue.

What do you think man?

I think you are right, the main issue I see is that we don't really have a mature well maintained alternative bitcoin implementation. Knots is just a fork of core, maintained by basically one guy (also with ego issues imo), so its not a long term solution, unless it attracts more developers. I will probably also start running knots, just to signal the disagreement, but then what, lets say core "apologizes", we all switch back to core and wait for the next dispute again. I really like libbitcoin, since its a total rewrite and an actual alternative, but its still not a full user friendly implementation... so yeah, idk to be honest 😅

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That’s a pretty twisted view of knots. It’s 14 years old.

Core has loads of dEveLoPErs. Look at what a shitshow it’s turned into.

Can you elaborate more on why its a twisted view and how does the age contribute here, if its mostly following core...

I didn't come across it before the opreturn debate, but just as a newcomer to the github repo it looks like there arent any contributers (see righthand side, under the release), not sure why this is hidden on the repo - its usually visible in repos with more contributers.

Im not trtying to shit on this, just trying to get more opinions... I think its great that knots exists and that there is an alternative, I just cant be convinced at the moment that this is some final solution. Its good to have conversations about this imo...

Luke has been contributing code to bitcoin since 2011. Along the way shitcoin group think has seeped into core fucking it up. Luke just takes all of the good ideas being contributed and unfucks it.

Knots is the antidote so spammy mission drift.

Did you guys hear the news? \

Every Core developer that contributes also contributes to Knots.

So Knots actually has all of the core developers PLUS LUKE.

Luke has been in Bitcoin longer than any Developer at Core.

And on my short list of knowledge about him… He has saved bitcoin more than anyone else out there.

I will follow the guy based upon action not ego.

Who cares if he has a big ego?

My favorite sports players have big ego’s but when you keep winning… I want to be on the winning team.

What about you?