Reality is: it's a rock and a hard place moment we find ourselves in.
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Core supporter's main argument even is dumber tho. "If you use one main project, instead of ours, you're supporting centralization". Really sure if a solid and well maintained alternative comes along, they'll come up with something as stupid as this argument.
Its not Core vs Knots, its Core V-1 vs Core V+1. I don't plan on upgrading.
Not upgrading won’t solve anything. Core pre v.25 has a critical bug (CVE-2024-35202). Core past v.25 has another critical bug (CVE-2023-50428) that allows attackers to inject arbitrary data and bloat to UTXO set. Core after v. 29 will still maintain the latter exploit and on top of that will have unlimited sized OP_RETURNs that create another usecase for block space in direct competition with monetary demand. I mean I don’t know how bad things should take for people to realise we have really serious problem here and the ship’s captains are trying hard to sink the ship with us on it.