Can someone explain this civil war that’s going on in bitcoin core?
What is Knots and what are the proponents of it trying to do?
Totally lost rn
Discussion
The feds are trying to divide us. Classic divide and conquer tactic.
Core devs are paid by spam companies and so they removed spamfilters. Anybody pro spam profits from it.
Anybody else sane runs knots with the filters.
(just for fun... I'm too dumb for deep technical discussions... I ❤️ all bitcoiners)
There’s growing tension in the Bitcoin developer community between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots. Bitcoin Core is the main implementation most nodes use. Its developers are pushing to remove the 80-byte limit on OP_RETURN, a field that lets users embed arbitrary data in transactions. They argue that Bitcoin should be neutral and not restrict valid use cases like Ordinals, RGB, or timestamping data.
Bitcoin Knots, maintained by Luke Dashjr, is a fork of Core with stricter policies. It filters out certain transactions, including large OP_RETURNs, spammy scripts, or low-fee data that don’t contribute to Bitcoin’s monetary role. These filters are designed to protect node operators from unnecessary resource usage and prevent blockchain bloat.
TLDR:
Core is dead. 💀
Move on. 🪢
Search for Knots in my profile for insights. I have one post and comment that would summarise and explain the drama. In short, sound money bitcoin doesn’t care.