Tone Vays BIP-110 Mecanic Reaction Video
Worth watching if you saw Tone Vays talk.
Especially around minute 8 to ponder whether claimed process transparency does actually exist as claimed by Vays.
For many people who never worked in open source it might seem very transparent, but if you did have serious open source experience you definitely notice the stark difference between these claims and reality.
In addition a core argument is that knots would mean less devs would work on bitcoin now, thus more centralized, but bitcoin works by nodes running software and that is and stays decentralized - and in addition more implementations means the devs of one implementation plus the devs of another one as well -it means additional developers and more redundancy and options - just like people benefit from multiple brower implementations instead of having just one web browser produced by one team.
Surprising Tone's talk makes so little sense - he claims he is sad about what is happening in core and v30, but he is against the decentralized governance process of people posting BIPs and coding open source to give node runners option and let the network decide in a decentralized fashion - very strange, but let me know what you think by posting your own notes here on nostr.
I think many people are very happy to have people like @Bitcoin Mechanic with a more public profile to not let certain narratives go unchallenged and spell out what the many of us think.
And all the way to the very end, Vays not once mentions what he exactly think is problematic that is in BIP110 ...most have been waiting for him mention it at some point, but it actually seems to be purely a hit piece - something i for sure didnt expect after following is imho valuable interview series over the last month that he did together with @jimmysong
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Absolutely.
This needs to become an important discussion topic to educate more people in the bitcoin community who might not yet understand this.
This will help us as a bitcoin community at large to resolve differences and avoid division
Interesting to learn, that **Bitcoin Core** is maintained by employees.
The marketing bitcoin core was "decentralized" because it has so many contributors is a farce.
There is no formal process, but instead a handful of existing maintainers pull in/up new contributors instead of the other way around.
And of course, everyone is incentivized to stay on the payroll - ultimately who pays decides.
https://www.youtube.com/live/3BFgoQawG7Q?t=8188s
Thanks @jimmysong for shedding light on this.
In fact - bitcoin developers can always ask for donations, but the point is - if you have a lot of bitcoin as a developer, you have stake in the game and helping to make bitcoin successful pays you.
True decentralization means - if we already have employees implementing, then at least lets have them paid by a diverse set of companies and not all on the same group that keeps everyone on payroll. Thats really bad.
I see knots vs. core as a huge improvement to decentralization and we should have even more implementations.
The gist of why knots and why BIP 444 to start making it a habit to always fight spam and fight it early, because publishing spam is a cost to spammers and to deny them their (scam) business model, mean they will sit on their costs instead of making profits from it.
But if spam will cause net losses for spammers, they will not even try to spam in the first place and thus the bitcoin chain gets rid of spam, which is great.
Let's all join this "whack a mole" game to proof to scammers trying to spam means making losses to stop them from even trying in the future.
Had a great time at Portland Bitdevs meetup 🙂
#portland #bitdevs #meetup
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Here is how to not have core30 nodes connect to your node so your mempool wont be polluted.

GitHub
GitHub - pdath/ban-bitcoin-core-v30: Filter out Bitcoin Core v30 nodes
Filter out Bitcoin Core v30 nodes. Contribute to pdath/ban-bitcoin-core-v30 development by creating an account on GitHub.
Regarding "knots" vs "core30"
A future where nodes can filter based on format, but not content is what we need.
Format filter is trivial. Content filter is hard and hence centralizing.
Content filtering will be required if "core30" becomes dominat to prevent CSAM and other spam.
Format filtering wont allow OFAC, because filtering transaction based on addresses or amounts is content filtering, not format filtering.
A format is just a template or structure of a transaction and ignores the content.
This is a fundamentally important differentiation