In my view, Bitcoin is purely about transferring money. Spam will still exist, but it can be made harder to execute. In the past, when a proposed change faced significant resistance, it usually wasn’t integrated. However, in this case, it was implemented anyway. Also, Knots offers more customization options for how I want to run my node. And that’s the simple reason why I use Knots. And if at some point Knots tries to force something on me as well, I can easily switch my node again.

No, maybe you should check your premises.

Core devs are opening the doors to regulators, discouraging the use of nodes for regular people. On the other hand, Luke gave us the possibility to filterout the shit and build Datum for our other big problem. But yeah, probably he has a secret plan to rule the world with uncle Larry and the Wef

Now we just make shit up? Hahaha

What I see is: - core taking away option from node runner to decide how much data he wants to rely (taking freedom away). And saying things like “there are no spam tx” - dashir creating datum to try fix the mining centralization issue and the knots ppl toxically defending btc as money protocol It’s not about the spam issue, it’s about where the focus is and how. And I believe that now that knots is at 17% it’s difficult to ignore the fact that many disagree with what core has been done (or at least how it has been done). I don’t claim to know the answer, but what really saddens me is seeing “core ppl in their village calling knots stupid” and “knots ppl in their village calling core ppl stupid”. Where are the real discussion and confrontation? Clearly this is a topic that needs to be discussed more between the 2 parties. I remember seeing 2 videos on YouTube where knots representative and core representative discussed in person with each other (each one not even 1 hour long and ppl being cut off after 2 minutes). Is this the best discussion we can have? I believe having more serious discussion between the 2 parties is what most ppl truly want

Wow, that's quite the attack on Luke who's been very important at critical moments of bitcoin's history. Just because I can't 100% block smth bad, doesn't mean I can't try making it harder or more expensive to do.

Nows as good as time as any to unfollow you. ✌️