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Contra reformedsaint@zaps.lol 8 months ago
Been following this Bitcoin Core vs. Knots stuff… Core is what most nodes run which is solid, but slow to respond to junk like NFTs clogging up the chain. Knots is a version with filters. Blocks stuff like JPGs and ordinals. Maintained by one dev (Luke Dashjr). The fight? Core lets anything through if it pays. Knots says nah, that’s spam, even if it pays. Some call it censorship. Others say it’s saving the network. At the end of the day: Core = open roads Knots = cleaner roads It’s about how you see Bitcoin. Freedom or filters? Your node, your rules. nevent1qqsr8x55f542c2kg4w3h5r0zye28umf7v9rjclhjg8apskmu6ddn7lqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgdxugvt
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Satosha shutosha@nostrcheck.me 8 months ago
I don't have a node but I like the ideas of KNOTS .. #bitcoin is money .. feature creepy is absolute waste of block space .
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MAHDOOD mahdood@rizful.com 8 months ago
Accurate take. I would add that if nodes running core require significantly more data, then eventually people will switch to knots to save money on storage
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Kayne kayne@nostrcheck.me 8 months ago
From what I understand the actual issue is that core are taking the choice away from node runners and actively sabotaging Bitcoin because of a conflict of interest. (They wanna turn the blockchain into data storage and bloat the fuck out of it so that normal people can not afford to run nodes)
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npub1sp0r...j02v 8 months ago
Not sure what you are talking about core and knots always will take same data on chain just depends on your prune settings
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MAHDOOD mahdood@rizful.com 8 months ago
What makes you think I'm passionate? I wrote a whole ass post yesterday about why people should chill and just wait until we learn more lol I don't completely understand it
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npub1sp0r...j02v 8 months ago
Hahaha I’m also in that same camp. Didn’t see your previous post, just was poking and seeing what you think. I think people are making mountains out of molehills as well. A lot more people are upset about someone getting banned on GitHub than upset based on technical arguments
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Luke thatdudeluke@lifeinmi.com 8 months ago
To filter what your node stores from the blockchain seems like it makes for inconsistency in the integrity of having a fully auditable ledger… so in the long term, yes it saves space for memory, but at the same time damages the integrity of Bitcoin. I’ll stick with Core, because either way it is the miners that build the blocks and the nodes store their results.
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nicnym nicnym@getalby.com 8 months ago
Gotta check out @Matthew Kratter videos It’s just like email spam, it doesn’t “break the rules” of email- but it’s still annoying and filters should be added if possible to block it.
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