I have zero skin in this game over #knots or #core, but damn do I love seeing the passion of the ones who do. @jb55 is an OG #punk to the core. I believe in his vision and motivation🙌🏼 View quoted note →

I think we finally found where we fundamentally diverge! And here I don’t think there is any point in discussing any further, we simply have different opinions Thanks for taking the time to engage with me man, really appreciate it. More discussion is simply what I wanted, not to persuade or attack anyone Cheers and if you got any more questions shorts away, peace and love

You’re not listening. It’s about who chooses. Node runners choose. Collectively that’s called consensus. The fact that Core pushes a change unilaterally while only one degree removed is a huge risk. Luckily this was just a case of don’t fix it if it ain’t broke. And Core fixed it anyway. But what if they had paid them to undermine something severe.

It does the intended thing. Otherwise why remove it?

It doesn't do the intended thing, or at least not to an acceptable threshold within an adversarial network. So why keep something that does not really achieve anything for users when there is a measurable downside to performance?

In order, yes, no, yes. The increase in time for 1. is pretty miniscule. A fee floor of a couple of sats/vbyte is already enough to compensate this effect. Of course we can't foresee everything. (2.) I think most were surprised to see the amount of spam-like activity post taproot, especially because the same embedding method was already available since p2sh and p2wsh. My guess is this is because spam has a pretty low baseline activity (like now) and goes through frenzied hype cycles (see satoshi dice and counterparty/Omni in the past). (3.) Indeed miner centralisation sucks, core v30 introduces a new mining interface specifically tailored for stratumv2.