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Yea... Well Jimmy also thinks we should use bits instead of sats... 🤷🏻

There's another angle people haven't covered on Core vs. Knots. The average tenure of a core maintainer is about 3 years. In total, they've got 19 years of collective experience as maintainers. Luke, meanwhile, has 14 years of experience maintaining Knots. Suddenly the "one guy" thing doesn't seem quite so obviously problematic, especially as experience in year 1 and experience in year 5 and experience in year n are not all created equal. That all said, the answer really is more node options. We could explore having core maintainers living in a monastery and taking an oath of poverty and undergoing extreme training to beat out of them any ego and desire to be known as having made a mark to try to shape them into perfect stewards of a system that is bigger than all of us, or we could let the market shape people with open competition. As much as the notion of Bitcoin Knights Citadeliers (Citadelars?) is an amusing image, market competition seems to be far, far more realistic.

Didn't know that. One more thing to like about the cut of his jib.

BITS THE STANDARD MOTHER FUCKER!

No sir. BIP172 all the way https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0172.mediawiki

Great chat guys. Almost too much logic here

All centralization will be attacked. Bitcoin implementation centralization was the last angle to exploit, and so it has been. A healthyimplementation landscape means at least a handful of competing node projects with double digit usage base percentages and at least 3 different languages, some of them memory safe BTW.

Loved this chat, it was hilarious. 🧡

Contrary to many influencers opinion, Knots users are not a loud retarded minority.

That was an excellent interview. Thanks for doing what you do and trying to keep your cool.

I love the Bitcoin monastery idea :)

Thank you. Great discussion. I really appreciate people thinking for themselves. Don’t trust. Verify. FFS. Don’t let anyone put you on any side. I am on no one’s side. I am on my side and Bitcoin’s side.

It'd make for good sci fi if nothing else. Reminiscent of the Server Monks in Sean Kennedy's Tales From the Afternow. Server Monk's Prayer: I am a node of Server, Born of flesh and blood, But enhanced by the power of its web, I have no use for pain or fear, My scripts are a focus of my will, My strength is my knowledge, My weapons are my skills, Information is the blood of my body, I am part of the greater network, I am host to the vast data of server, My flesh is weak, But my connection is eternal, And therefore I am god. Written by: Sean Kennedy http://rantmedia.ca/darkatlas/audio-afternow.php

Follow the Money. Who funds the devs obviously has influence, no matter what. Example: If I choose vc or grant money then my primary duty is to those who funded me. If I choose not to chase grant money, then I have to be more accountable to the end users who are paying for a product or service that I am producing. When the incentives are not aligned with the users, then you have this disconnect. Full Stop.

Common sense feels good 😌 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6RmWCJ-dMY https://pca.st/episode/5bb65f9e-e316-4fd2-a420-71ba70eb10d9 #core #knots nostr:nevent1qqsqjch6w3z728yn626ywvprhhuufhvdekemuemukt8dt00krpxlulqzyzu7we2xhgry2mknq8v7227yn7jguu9xhu3g90n6rtnjj3mpyq3acqcyqqqqqqgjy3urd

100%

100% and it's not even a malicious thing.. you are just obligated to not piss off people who pay you.

Pure signal 🙏