I didn't fully understand what's the different between Knots and Core exactly , even the design looks the same.
1116 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 25 Apr
Bitcoin Core is produced by dozens of contributors per a public process with each change subject to careful review.
Knots is a fork of Bitcoin Core modified with an opinionated substantial patch set of over 1000 commits maintained and packaged by a single developer without any review.
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @harrr 25 Apr
Knots is maintained by a fanatic, I wouldn't even use it if I agreed with the changes it contains because you can never know what the maintainer will do next.
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5 sats \ 1 reply \ @kristapsk 25 Apr
Maintainer can't impact version you are running on your computer. If you are afraid about future, you can just choose to not upgrade or switch back to Core. Or patch your own version.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @wopwopwopwop 25 Apr
That isn't how most people will operate. The logic will flow as follows:
I trust Luke, so I will just upgrade. He is a Bitcoin OG!
He is capitalizing on people who are far less likely to be paranoid enough to not update their software in the first place, otherwise why would they jump ship from Core to begin with?
Maintainer has massive social influence over the entire network if Knots becomes popular.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk 25 Apr
Knots is modified version of Core, maintained and packaged by Core developer Luke Dash-Jr.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @wopwopwopwop 25 Apr
By selecting core, you select decentralized consensus and the rules of the network as they should be.
By selecting knots, you vote for a single authority (Luke and probably the financial backing of Dorsey) who get to dictate the rules to you, by a person who thinks that the rules should be changed in order to combat a spam attack on the network. Sure you can choose when to upgrade, but if you are willing to move the goal posts enough to download Knots then what does that say? Where is your line?
If the spam attack is successful, Bitcoiners will sell you a lie faster than admit that its a failed experiment.
Im not downloading knots. Either Bitcoin succeeds or it burns to the fucking ground. I thought you guys was psychopaths? You fucking scared?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @tolot 26 Apr
What? Knots is only different from Core with regards to some features like mempool policies. Nothing that you could not add in your Core config file, by the way. Mempool policy is not "protocol rules", is stuff that you are willing to relay, given that you do not break protocol rules. If I decide that my node does not relay any transaction at all to the network, there is nobody stopping me. Moreover, I'm not breaking protocol rules.
What's the point?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 25 Apr
Knots is same as Core, only that have some features removed and/or added another ones.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Knots
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