Feels like people are virtue signalling with this knots vs core stuff. Couldn't you just not update if the PR is completed?
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Not update for the rest of your life
Maybe. But I'm in no rush to update my bitcoin node. If knots was truly the right answer, why weren't we all just running it before this?
if there is a security patch you wont get it without updating.
Is there an urgent security patch ATM?
Not that i know of. but if or when there is i think it would be easier to update the implementation you already have than to change the implementation you are using in that moment. Apart from that i guess the point now is people are losing trust/unhappy with the decisions that Core is taking and are signaling that by choosing an implementation that aligns more with their views. I think its good. Not updating is another option sure, but if new feats/updates that you want comes along you will have to deal with it at that point.
You will be able to just as easily switch implementations at that moment.
To send a message to the core devs that they can't do whatever they feel like.
Not updating is the same thing.
No, by running knot we are signalling that once we gain sizeable majority and more people actually get educated about block wars then we can implement the 300kb block size limit proposed by Luke.
This has to be done to price our the spams faster and keep Bitcoin decentralized.
Imagine every store running their own nodes!
Thar won't be possible with 4mb blocks