Discussion
Hmmmm.. I looked at knots a while back, but from my cursory research people were saying the code wasn't audited..
Is it any better now?
The knots code is 99.9% the same as Bitcoin Core, there are only small changes such as filtering policies that stopped working some time ago in Bitcoin Core, you would have to ask the Bitcoin Core developers who are related to mining pools to explain it.
Maybe.. I just wanna support the network in the best way possible
I moved from core to knots about 5 months ago.
Unfortunately I just trusted what is advertised as I have no means to verify the code myself.
I just checked that it is really a core fork, and compiled the code myself.
About setup, I just used the same bitcoin.conf file I was using with core.
I asked here on nostr and lukedashjr himself explained to me that the standard filters are enough and I didn't need to setup them if I didn't want.
I would go further down this rabbit hole.
From user’s perspective isn’t it that you can set up the same policies on both? Knots is more restrictive at start then Core but you can filter the same transactions on Core as well as remove filters on Knots? I’m not sure if it is true as I can see on Ocean site recommendation for Knots as being more customizable.
Currently I am running Core and plan to set up Datum on top of that so I can practically verify what actually I can do with Core’s policies.
In core the filters are broken, they do not work.
But I don't want tiny blocks.
Knots is an 1-man project from a guy who lost all his bitcoins on a hotwallet.
