Knots 1. having an option in bitcoin nodes is a good thing ... so I would choose Knots until it is 51% for this reason alone. 2. any filtering of non-monetary transactions from the time-chain, is a good thing... even if not very effective (maybe just virtue signaling, but I'm good with that) 3. we need to ensure that low-end hardware can always be used to run a node... or eventually Google, Amazon, and Microsoft will be the only node-runners...

gotta love a solid Moose!

Once that fully sinks in... Almost everything else that the government (any government) has done to 'help' its citizens, or for the 'safety' of its citizens, is equally flawed and has equally ugly side effects. ... and I said 'Almost' to be polite...

bitcoin is what the node runners say it is. ... and a good number of them seem to disagree with you. ... not enough to fork ... yet.

yeah ... unless you can change the node the miner is using, it is not going to change the blocks they construct. this is 'a principled stance' ... or 'sending a message' ... today. Hopefully the nebulous 'they' get the message that at some point I (and hopefully a large percentage of the node runners) would fork... but until they try to cross that line, we are just pretending to play chicken.