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No worries man anytime. I actually agree with Core on increasing the op-return limit (because I want the market to push scams out rather than force it "by law", I think is the best possible and long-lasting defense). But the way core handled the issue is very worrying because: 1- it was very much a "this is technical issue, you are not technical so you have no opinion in the matter, and we are doing it withouth checking what the community think first. Also let's ban people and close the discussion". This approach leds only to misery in the long.term 2- statements from core devs like "btc is not money is a database for whatever" and "scams don't exist, if they pay fee it's a valid transcation like any other" are worrying as fuck, what the fuck is this shit all of a sudden? So even if core was right in the "what", it was incredibly wrong in the "how and why" (and in my opinion is the "how and why" that bring success in the long-term) and this is why I switched to Knots, to send a signal to core that they need to really reconsider their approach and to help decentralized away from core monopoly To conclude, we always say that btc is an ego challenge first and foremost. After having Knots going from less than 1% to 15% in not even 2 months, and Ocean pool doubling its hashrate in the same period, I was hoping for a statement from core like "ok we realized we could have handled the situation better and we see the feedback from the community". This would have earned core 1000 points in respect and regained some trust. Instead they seem to ignore completely and stick to their initial stance that "everything was handled perfectly", seems a childish and arrogant behaviour. So for me is neither a technical nor a political issue, it's a an approach-behavioural issue. What do you think man?

I think you are right, the main issue I see is that we don't really have a mature well maintained alternative bitcoin implementation. Knots is just a fork of core, maintained by basically one guy (also with ego issues imo), so its not a long term solution, unless it attracts more developers. I will probably also start running knots, just to signal the disagreement, but then what, lets say core "apologizes", we all switch back to core and wait for the next dispute again. I really like libbitcoin, since its a total rewrite and an actual alternative, but its still not a full user friendly implementation... so yeah, idk to be honest 😅

Nothing is that bad until something goes bad. Please don’t change the code just for fun nor to store data on the bitcoin blockchain. Money is the highest and best use case for Bitcoin. The great Saint Satoshi Nakamoto said “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.”