> you already need Hitler to bring gillible people to knots? It's not to bring anyone to knots, it's to make people laugh > What about the downsides of knots? Why dies no one work on those? Lots of people work on them. As an example from one of the downsides you brought up, here are people working on it:

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Rework Software Expiry by pithosian · Pull Request #134 · bitcoinknots/bitcoin

As an alternative to #124. Add a warning on startup within 4 weeks of expiry to bitcoind and bitcoin-qt. Add a note on how to override in the exis...

> Knots stands on a single Person. (A bit too centralized in my Mind) At least 10 people work on knots. > Knots forces you to update your node. (Really, this is what you promote?) It can't force you to do anything. It is software, you choose whether or not you want to run it, and if you opt to run it, you opt into the consequences. If you don't like them, don't run it. I recommend checking out Bitcoin Core for a different set of consequences. > Running knots has literally zero impact as you See I don't see that. It has consequences on you; it has consequences on your peers; it has consequences on block propagation; and, according to you, it forces you to update your node, along with potentially other less specified dangers. > there will always be "spam" as long there is a market and they pay True. Also true: if more people fight it there may be less of it > Everyone who is capable installing knots can also simply adjust the op_return limit in core Partially. But not fully. E.g. you can't reject transactions with multiple op_returns. > Lets see how far knots can make it until it crashes from bugs. Yes, let's.