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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @028559d218 11 May \ parent \ on: The Utility of Bike Shedding OP_RETURN limits bitcoin
That, respectfully, doesn't make any sense. if knots usage has few if any upsides, and easily identifiable, clear downsides... then the downsides outweigh the upsides and knots shouldn't be run by most people.
now people have the right to run whatever, and the more nodes that get used in general the better... but it is false equivalence to say that running knots is the technical equivalent of running core. it isn't.
there is some growing body of influencers out there advocating that people 'run knots' without explaining any of the downsides, any of the reason 'not to' filling in the blanks with baseless conspiracy and this doesn't 'help bitcoin' i think this much is clear.
identifying risks and managing upside vs downside in the software is what developers do... but infleuncers don't [as they're] advocating using incomplete information and i see our job (as non-technical plebs) to call this out
if knots usage has few if any upsides
Like I said I don't run it, so I'm not an expert, but from the code I've seen that Luke has been adding the past couple of years, there are a whole lot more configuration options. It could be useful for tuning.
the more nodes that get used in general the better
The more nodes that don't blindly do whatever a bunch of devs says, the better, but also to a limit; hops are a thing and thousands of useless nodes that guard no economic value will just introduce more hops and that doesn't make things better for the whole, per-se.
However, people thinking about what they want their node to do is good though. People watching what's going on on the network and having an opinion about that is good too. It would be even better if they question the influencers and get better informed, agreed.
A whole bunch of people that just do X because someone was saying it on X (excuse the pun), is of course not an improvement, but long term, there is great value in people thinking about things. It's easy to call sheep but these people - if they're young - will also evolve.
i see our job (as non-technical plebs) to call this out
Okay, so why are you calling me out? You think I'm an influencer? 😂
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No. but i think bs has a way of permeating any environment, and it doesn't help. eventually reality sets in and the BS makes a system weaker, not stronger.
the 'bigger risk' to bitcoin isn't bitcoin core or jpegs (and i believe that btc core's approach has been very thoughtful over all?) it's irrelevance.
negligible layer 1 usage kills bitcoin eventually. Not today, not tomorrow, but it does eventually because it [btc] can't only be a store of value for institutions and for 'NGU' forever.
lightning works, coinjoins work and are extremely cheap, and yet at 1 sat/vb clearly the 'demand' to use Bitcoin isn't there. This is a much bigger deal and it would help to have the smartest people in this space talking about it instead of whether there are frog jpegs at all of 1 sat/vbyte.
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Will talking about that help though? Economic activity doesn't come from talking unless it's a contract negotiation. So let's just do it. I already demand payment in L1 whenever I take a gig to fill up the reserves. More people do that, we get more transactions on L1...
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