Sounds like you're still struggling to read charts. This is not "steadily going down" hahaha

That's funny, just a few weeks ago you were trying to make your points by posting year old charts from coin.dance that showed knots at less than 1%. Seems like 10% is pretty good growth, although the currentt coin.dance chart has it at over 14%

Hard to believe there's so many altcoin treasury companies already and they're growing at a pretty fast rate, but then again altcoins were always the cause bitcoin's bear markets, it looks like this time will be no different.

Judas betrayed Jesus didn’t he?

Not everyone was built to be great nor understand greatness.

#bitcoin

#knots

#runknots

Come on bro. I’m not dissing you. Why do you want to start something here?

You don’t have technical knowledge on women, but you don’t see me on here trying to call you a homo.

Oh wait… let me guess. To have relations with a women I must become a woman?

That is stupid. About as stupid as saying I need technical knowledge on how to code bitcoin or know how it works to hold my own keys.

Let’s assume that everyone needs superior knowledge to hold and use bitcoin. The few developers would be by themselves with a failed project don’t you think? Might as well call it BitDevCoin.

I swear that I am soooo close to learning how to code from all of this b.s. going on this round.

I usually don’t allow my emotions to get altered by non sense, but hearing that people don’t want to work with Luke as if he is “bad for bitcoin” is a testament to their short comings. NOT HIS.

Specifically: I am talking about the team they have at Ocean with Datum and Knots. They align with how I feel the world should be.

Can I ask a wild question?

Why don’t Devs want to work with them?

So it is akin to going west until you find land, or Bitcoin in the early days? There are a few pioneers that believed in the project until the project stood on its own? I’m down for that!

I live to be the first or one of the first to something. I like to think that I can see greatness at the beginning along with a few others.

Wish I could’ve found bitcoin earlier though. Ya feel me?

What do you think the % is?

The chances are simply higher when using peer-reviewed software vs non peer-reviewed software. They literally can't even hire another dev for Knots despite their best efforts, but nobody wants to work on it 😕

Is there a chance that we lose bitcoin with Knots? I prefer not to lose coin also. Sats are limited.

We are all on the same team. I think Vortex runs knots. He just likes to debate about it.

This just sounds desperate.

I don't know who needs to hear this but Core is not a monopoly . You can't have a monopoly on open source software that people voluntarily choose to run.

You are not going to let this go are you? Ok fine. Your wife is hotter than mine. There I said it!

Both of our women hold bitcoin so they both are on the winning team!

#bitcoin

#lightning

Your only counterargument is to make a distinction without a difference.

> any client replicating consensus behavior

That's the rub. No client can guarantee a byte-for-byte replication of bitcoin core behavior. That's the reason core is dominant. That's why we need a consensus library. So all clients can run the exact same code and guarantee the exact same behavior when validating blocks without being forced to run the same p2p code, mempool, policy rules, IBD, template construction, wallet, gui, etc.

Why are you hyper focused on enforcement? Nobody's talking about enforcement but you. Is this like a fetish or something? You're focusing on the wrong thing, bro. It's an utterly irrelevant distinction. It's a straw man.

Anyway, it's been fun. Last reply. Deuces. ✌️

But what are people trusting and auditing? It is mainly consensus.

Knots don't count it is just Core with patches, and Libbitcoin is only compatible with Core until it is not. I don't know about BTCD but is that the one where it actually had a fork because it failed to replicate some undocumented Core behaviour? Or was that something else?

At the end of the day, Core is absurdly unwieldy that no one is using it in any mobile device, which is where all payments happen, and they can't optimize for every use case.

I want innovative clients to do their things in different environments, while all knowing that given the same chain of blocks, they will all reach the same conclusion of say UTXO set.

Or at least given the same block they all can be confident they will validate it the same way.

So far the only way to do that was the libbitcoinconsensus which is now deprecated.

Coercion is irrelevant in software anyway, no one is coercing anyone to not fork away at the extreme.

But the lack of neither spec nor extractable kernel, makes running anything but bitcoind not feasible.

Don't take it from me, I already heared at least one core dev describing the kernel library as necessary to reduce the pressure and liability on the Core team.

An ossified kernel, one day, will make Core much less mission critical to Bitcoin, as just another client, probably not even the most popular, while consensus remaining safe.