I get serious central planning vibes from this, and the core dev supporters in general. They think they know what node runners want and what motivates them better then they (node runners) do themselves.

You all should brush up on Austrian Economics, especially Human Action. People have all kinds of motivations that can't all be accounted for by central planners. The incentive for miners is obvious, reward and fees, but not so for node runners. Also Economics In One Lesson since this is a classic seen vs unseen problem. Core sees the use of OoB payments and can point that out, but what is unseen is all the nonsense the existing (and reasonable imo) limit prevents.

There is also a problem with his use of the term "censorship". There are two distinct usages of the term here. One is censoring economic activity, like blocking a tx for political reasons. Every bitcoiner is against this. There is also the "censoring" of arbitrary, non-monetary data. This is what is in question. Wuille and other supporters conflate the two, lumping them together, which makes for an easy straw man target, but is not accurate because filtering spam does not in any way impede the monetary use case of Bitcoin i.e. p2p electronic cash.

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Weak take, very weak.

Speaking of

"The reason it is harmful for the ecosystem at large is mining centralization." and "the inability for new small miners to enter the ecosystem"

and failing to mention the solution - DATUM (Decentralized Alternative Templates for Universal Mining)?

"DATUM was born out of a need to restore Bitcoin mining to its decentralized roots—a time when miners truly embodied the role of building the blockchain by constructing block templates and submitting them to the network."

https://ocean.xyz/docs/datum

I solomine using Bitcoin Knots and DATUM from Ocean.

There is so much assumptions and gaslighting in the post that its sad.

But I want to say this about the "decentralized fee estimation":

At the moment 99.9% of Bitcoin nodes have OP_RETURN of less than 83 Bytes. Bitcoin works. If we don't increase OP_RETURN, guess what, it will continue to work.

I've seen this argument based on human action many times. I don't get it. A policy rule is only effective if everybody applies it. How does that account for human action? On the contrary it seems like a centrally planned and executed policing action. A keynesian argument in my book.

Bitcoin Core developers cannot force anyone to use their software— it doesn’t even have an auto-update function.

You can simply not upgrade if you don’t like the new release.

You can also fork the code and adjust it as you please, as Luke does with Bitcoin Knots.

You can even write an entirely new Bitcoin implementation and connect to the network that way.

If this gives you “central planning vibes”, I’m not sure what wouldn’t.

I'm running knots so I'm well aware that core can't force me to run v30. People thwart the efforts of central planners all the time. That is not evidence that central planning wasn't attempted, only that people find ways to route around it. We are seeing this play out right now as knots usage continues to grow. What I mean by vibe is the "we know what's best for you" and "trust the experts" mentality of Wuille core devs. It's like 2020 all over again.

Bitcoin Core is central planning but Bitcoin Knots isn’t?

It’s god’s vision for bitcoin

Yes exactly. The fundamental difference is that core is removing an option and knots is keeping it.