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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?

Well said man. I would have had to change my opinion on them also if they would’ve admitted to stop the b.s.

Cant win em all.

Knots for life!

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nostr:nprofile1qqs9g6ujf76hkxemyscfy3j6wsen75mwrzl5dmrrlk78xttt2uvh98gpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctc9jdh26 Yes, I have upgraded from Core to Bitcoin Knots on Start 9 and Umbrel. Both did not need a new block download.

I set up a new umbrel with knots, syncing nicely. But on another umbrel that already had core, it doesn't look like its a drop in replacement, as a test I tried to run knots in parallel, but it started syncing from 0, so I guess umbrel assignes a different datadir. I have to test this a bit more, but it looks like if I uninstall the Bitcoin (core) app it will also delete the blockchain and knots will then just start syncing from scratch...

I am getting old and forgetful. i forgot that Knots required a new install. I ran them both at the same time so I thought that you could just upgrade. Thanks for letting me know. That's valuable info.

Actually there is a way: https://docs.mempool.guide/page/migrationumbrel.html

You just have to stop both, copy the data, and then run knots. Since its basically the same software, the structure in the datadir is compatible..

Now this is the way that it should be done!

Before Umbrel 1.0 it used to be a little more complicated if you weren’t used to command line (and I wasn’t)

Bitcoin apps just keeps getting better and better.