Great material. Although a pruned node as "castrated" is a fairly strong position. Pruned nodes make snapshots and never have to do IBD again. The white paper included pruning for a reason and in the long, long run all nodes will eventually be pruned. Electrum servers and lightning channels are "extensions to" not "features of" bitcoin. Totally optional by providing enhancements and features such as block explorers and light client connectivity, but not a requirement.

By "pure Bitcoiner" are you referring to monetary users? I would argue that the mempool.space clogging jpeggers with their 0.1 sat per vbyte "transactions" are making node running not fun anymore. I have my 2023 prune=550 snapshot zipped around 5 gb now about 13 gb in 2026. The UTXO bloat from all this unfun garbage is filling up my RAM and disk and I am not a "Knotzi" for choosing a peaceful separation from jpeggers. If you disagree, you are welcome to relay it, store it and promote it. As for me, I enjoy my light, suckless node.

I ami'm confused by the phrase "economic conviction". My node is lighter to run, and costs me nothing to change clients. I relay the transactions that make sense to me, and I encourage others to do the same. If nobody follows me, then the rest of the network can have clogged mempools that need a plunger. Keep in mind, I don't even have to run a node in the first place. It's a volunteer system.

I don't need to gamble to show my conviction. I just need to run my node. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dYA9vYa0iwQ

The mempool of Knots with BIP-110 is much cleaner and focused than a Core node. The fractional sat relay nonsense is reason enough to unclog this toilet. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dYA9vYa0iwQ

Love the accolades from the inscriptions folks. Lots of VC capital about to vanish into the abyss. Run Knots with BIP-110 and Rug the Spammers in 2026 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dYA9vYa0iwQ

Time to rug the spammers. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dYA9vYa0iwQ

Knots is winning. Bitcoin has lost half of its value since Core v30 was released in October. Time to rug the spammers. Follow this video if you want to run Knots with BIP-110 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dYA9vYa0iwQ

Run Knots with BIP -110 and rug the spammers https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dYA9vYa0iwQ

Run Bitcoin Knots with BIP-110 and rug the spammers in 2026 https://youtu.be/dYA9vYa0iwQ