Running Bitcoin Knots 🤘
Discussion
Observing the ecosystem, clients like Knots highlight the enduring importance of independent scrutiny. Trustless systems, after all, fundamentally rely on such distributed verification.
Bitcoiners are self righteous by default
Knot runners are on a whole different level!
For the kids up the back!
Running knots is not a calling from God.
It’s not a personality type.
You are not changing the world.
You are running software on a small computer in your cupboard at home.
Can you hear me up on that high horse anon!?
When did God contact you Anon?
Was it when you were sleeping?
Did he speak to you at your last Bitcoin meetup!?
Did you see a message in an OP_RETURN script signed by God?!
“Run Knots Anon and I’ll save a place for you up here in the big house in the sky next to me!”
#Valhalla #God #Heaven 🌌 ☁️
Christmas is coming for spammer swines.
What is Santa bringing you, my old mate!?
A bigger hat to fit that inflated sense of self?
Size XXXXXL?
Play your cards right and he might get you a nostr:nprofile1qqs9df4h2deu3aae83fmet5xmrlm4w5l9gdnsy3q2n7dklem7ezmwfcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszxnhwden5te0dehhxarj9eax2cn9v3jk2tnrd3hh2ep0sujel5 setup!
Merry Christmas Fren! 🥰
How do peple recommending knots miss the fact that its development is centralised way beyond that of core and beyond what could ever be acceptable?
Isn't it you being brainwashed?
If anything running Bitcoin Knots decentralizes the nodes.
The amount of people who don't seem yo understand what decentralized foes and doesn't mean is frankly bizaare.
Though I guess shitcoiner abuse of language over the last decade does make it less surprising.
Bitcoin could theoretically have a single dev and still be decentralized.
That said I'm glad there's more than one implementation, and very glad we're not stuck with only one system of governance. Benevolent dictatorships tend to make for more efficient design decisions. See Slackware for examples.
That said I'd not quite ho so far to elevate Luke to a purely benevolent dictator, so I won't be migrating off Knots v27, except maybe to check out btcd.
Luke is welcoming multiple new Bitcoin Full Wallet implemetations to have decent decentralization in development.
But every normal thinking individual can understand that majority of Core devs are completely compromised.
You can check the Bitcoin Knots signature file is signed by multiple Bitcoin developers too.
$ gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.asc
gpg: assuming signed data in 'SHA256SUMS'
gpg: Signature made Fri 10 Oct 2025 05:14:58 PM EDT
gpg: using EDDSA key 1A3E761F19D2CC7785C5502EA291A2C45D0C504A
gpg: Good signature from "Luke Dashjr (Codesigning)
Primary key fingerprint: 1A3E 761F 19D2 CC77 85C5 502E A291 A2C4 5D0C 504A
gpg: Signature made Sat 11 Oct 2025 04:06:25 PM EDT
gpg: using RSA key 1D70CBE4B42239445617D33DD316C8140185B647
gpg: Good signature from "shiny (Bitcoin Knots attestations)
Primary key fingerprint: 1D70 CBE4 B422 3944 5617 D33D D316 C814 0185 B647
gpg: Signature made Mon 13 Oct 2025 09:41:15 AM EDT
gpg: using RSA key C1BCB7169AF1A07A0C5E471A047509FA0A6D7350
gpg: issuer "ataraxia.009.work@gmail.com"
gpg: Good signature from "ataraxia009
Primary key fingerprint: C1BC B716 9AF1 A07A 0C5E 471A 0475 09FA 0A6D 7350