Security is not binary. Filters are economic tools. They raise friction & time-to-relay. If a minority of nodes/miners carry sub-1sat, you get leakage, not failure. The goal is not to stop every tx everywhere, but to prevent the network as a whole from becoming a free relay for spam (ie, dick pics, child abuse)… A filter that reduces bandwidth/mempool abuse by 80–90% is still doing its job. Or is your pushback less about principle and more about VC profit-making?

Security is not binary. Filters are economic tools. They raise friction & time-to-relay. If a minority of nodes/miners carry sub-1sat, you get leakage, not failure. The goal is not to stop every tx everywhere, but to prevent the network as a whole from becoming a free relay for spam (ie, dick pics, child abuse)… A filter that reduces bandwidth/mempool abuse by 80–90% is still doing its job. Is the pushback less about principle and more about VC profit-making?

@BitcoinKnots vs Bitcoin Core

With the upcoming Bitcoin Core version 30 (slated for release end of October 30, a significant shift is occurring: Users are being drawn away from a purely financial-focused blockchain to one increasingly used for images, inscriptions, “runes,” and other non-monetary data. Run @BitcoinKnots and show you disagree

Running BitcoinKnots

First Dos-attacks now death threat lies

First they ignore Knots. Then they mock Knots. Then they Dos-Attack Knots nodes. Then… Knots dominates 51% of the network…. Soon

“Spam? That’s base layer-liquidity” -Satoshi Nakaspamoto Run @BitcoinKnots

“One man’s spam is another man’s airdrop” -Satoshi Nakaspamoto Run @BitcoinKnots

Bitcoin Core - Read

Why Run @BitcoinKnots 🌸 Bitcoin Knots does not censor Bitcoin. It accepts every valid block according to the consensus rules that define the Bitcoin network. If a transaction is mined and included in a valid block, Bitcoin Knots will recognize it exactly the same way Bitcoin Core does. The difference is that Bitcoin Knots applies stricter policies for the mempool and for transaction relay. These policies are not consensus rules. They are local rules that determine what your node chooses to store and forward before a transaction is mined. This is entirely optional behavior for node operators, and it does not affect what the blockchain itself considers valid. The reason these policies exist is to reduce waste and to protect decentralization. Some transactions contain dust outputs that cost more in fees to spend than they are worth. Others contain oversized witness data that slow down block propagation. More recently, people have been embedding large images and other arbitrary files, such as JPEGs, into Bitcoin transactions. These transactions are valid under consensus, but they dramatically increase blockspace usage, drive up fees, and make it harder for ordinary users to run a node by consuming disk space, bandwidth, and memory. Relaying everything without any filters makes it easier for attackers or opportunists to flood the network with junk. This increases the cost of running a node, and higher costs reduce decentralization by driving out smaller operators. When fewer people can afford to run full nodes, the network becomes more dependent on large, centralized entities. Filtering spam at the mempool level solves this without changing consensus. Bitcoin Knots simply refuses to forward transactions that harm efficiency and decentralization. If miners want to include those transactions in a block because they pay a high fee, Knots will accept the block. Nothing is censored from the blockchain. But until then, Knots protects the network by declining to help propagate wasteful transactions. The anti-filter position repeats the same mistake seen during the block size war. Then, the “obvious” solution was to make blocks larger, but that solution ignored the cost to decentralization and the risk of centralizing mining. Today, the “obvious” solution is to remove filters and let every transaction through. But that ignores the real cost of propagation, resource bloat, and node centralization. Bitcoin Knots is a conservative, safe, and responsible choice. It strengthens Bitcoin by reducing spam, protecting decentralization, and ensuring that running a node remains affordable and efficient for the long term. Switch to @BitcoinKnots