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.

anon

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.

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.

harrr

Knots is modified version of Core, maintained and packaged by Core developer Luke Dash-Jr.

kristapsk

It's becoming more clear the differences those days

88b0c423eb

Knots is same as Core, only that have some features removed and/or added another ones.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Knots

DarthCoin

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? 

wopwopwopwop

I didn't fully understand what's the different between Knots and Core exactly , even the design looks the same.

bitcoin_beginners

I didn't fully understand what's the different between Knots and Core exactly , even the design looks the same.

