You cant claim to be for privacy, and then also participate in doxxing a bitcoin dev.

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Imagine saying you are for privacy then doxxing the private conversations of a bitcoin developer.

Maybe it's better to ask how they got it right for so long. Core has grown bitcoin from a small project to a $2 trillion asset, and with that comes many pressures. Just as no one person can get it right every time, similarly the group-think can have blind spots. It is often ego related, and sometimes agitation driven. Core is about to make a big mistake if they release v30 next week in current form. Fortunately, the community is communicating this loudly and clearly. If all else fails, it's open source, and we can migrate to new software and thank Core for their amazing contribution to bitcoin.

People are moving away from core v30 or not upgrading. Some are embracing Knots. There is a lot to like. The change to v30 was pushed through too quickly without community buy-in. Adam normally gets it right, but he seems to have a blind spot on this issue. Which is why it's good that bitcoin has a big community.

He would call it the bitcoin reference client. He would recognize that spam is a game of cat and mouse and would use sensible defaults (aka heuristics) to find a usable balance. That's what he always did. He also said that if spam got were more things we could do. So, knots is far closer to that philosophy than removing filters.

Knots. It's closest to his code.

It widens the attack surface. It has been rushed, and leads to multiple unintended consequences. How big a deal it will be, time will tell.

Yes, there was big fallout

Extraordinary when you consider about 1 million dollars a month is being pumped into it. Where is the money going, I wonder?