After looking at every argument and consuming as much information as I can, considering my own bias and trying to be as objective as possible. I've changed my mind about #core vs #knots I no longer support either side. The most objectively correct, reasoned and logical arguments I have seen have come from #monero advocates. Spam and trying to turn Btc into media hosting or some kind of utility coin is retarded, so knots and bip110 is still better than core but it does not actually do anything to promote Bitcoin as money and it barely even addresses the spam problem. The bip110 obviously isn't a permanent solution it's just meant to create time for better solutions or force core to fork the chain themselves. I think the Bitcoin community is too toxic for real solutions to be put forward and be accepted with enough consensus, even if the knots fork wins other things won't be addressed we will all end up using either privacy alt coins like monero or give up and use kyc lightning centralised around a handful of corporations or kyc stable coins centralised around a handful of corporations. Instead of taking power away from private central banks to give to the public btc is on track to give that power to corporations.

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I have been following transaction on XMR, and btc have about 28x the tx. But price is about 185x. So there is an upside to xmr, when you compare tx to price. πŸ‘€πŸ‘€
If it starts to take hold and threaten the establishments means of control via the financial system they will ban it. But that is the last and firmest hand they can play. Then whatever survives proves that they don't have control and its all up from there. I see similarities to the protestant reformation that resulted in religious freedom after a struggle from the Catholic church. The Renaissance from sound money will draw demand and when people since weakness they will jump ship. The harder the establishment tryes to suppress monero and privacy coins the more it will become apparent that they are gaining an unfair advantage from the status quo and the more resistance they will get.
An outright ban is a sign of desperation and that they are close to loosing. The current approach is to embrace bitcoin, making it win in terms of market cap over all other coins, then limiting it's privacy and increasing the cost of transactions to limit P2P use. This ensures people are dependent on a financial system that can be used to maintain a level of control.
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