bitcoin core devs represent a very small part of the 325+ grants we have distributed

personally i would like to see more well maintained and reviewed implementations available - opensats is well situated to make that a reality - the primary concern of dev capture is best mitigated is by funding more devs, not less - this is one of the main reasons we donate our time to build out opensats

Samourai Dojo bans knots nodes.

Don't use that crap.

- Their coinjoin was never zerolink; they literally scammed you.

- The fees for the new coinjoin ashigaru are totally abusive, and they use op_return to find out if you've paid the fee because they're terrible software architects, just like their predecessors.

Instead, use Wasabi. It doesn't have all these problems, you don't get toxic change, and it's much cheaper—in many cases, free.

like all of us have been, I’m considering the core/knots debate.

I think Adam Back is making reasonable arguments against knots from a legal perspective. if you try to get a tighter leash on what unconfirmed transactions get broadcast, it stands to reason that the legal attack vector grows.

also, core obviously doesn’t allow blocks to exceed 4mb, so this doesn’t make it more difficult to run a node.

here’s the thing I can’t quite understand, though:

if core wants spammers to use op_return, something 4x more expensive than other avenues, what is the economic incentive there? it seems like another avenue that spammers *could take*, with no economic incentive to get them there.