https://youtu.be/c5BL4RNFr58?si=7mHxTSnJugBxhj8C

They aren't, plenty of influencers actually came out in favour of Knots.

If anyone wants to help us get the circular economy going in our town has put together this initiative! https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoinvalleycirculareconomy

You have gotten stuck at #3. Try to keep up.

That isn't a "Core" thing though, just a couple of OCEAN derangement sufferers.

Things that don't for me: Phone calls when the WiFi is a bit unreliable. Causes the mic to just die why the other person remains clear. If I just turn off WiFi before making those calls it's fine. Keyboard stuff: infuriating issue where only in some apps, backspacing causes the beginning of the word to lose the space between itself and the prior word. GPS location apps. Uber will take forever to figure out where I am. Sometimes it just can't at all. Gmaps generally better but also sometimes just takes ages.

Narrative evolution in the political battle to undermine Bitcoin as a monetary network: 1. There's no such thing as "spam" in Bitcoin. Transactions are either valid or invalid. 2. OK spam exists and it's a problem but it'll get priced out by genuine monetary activity. 3. OK the trend in the opposite direction is clear, but the proposed solution of filtering spam at the mempool level does nothing at all as miners can still include this stuff in blocks regardless. (And despite the fact that spam filtration is something we've always done, it's somehow now "censorship" as of spring 2023). 4. OK filtering actually works extremely well and is basically forcing some BitVM schemes to use fake pubkeys instead of OP_RETURN which - for the sake of *maybe* preventing a few KBs of UTXO bloat a year - we need to aggressively resolve *now* by forcing nodes to relay giant OP_RETURNs by breaking the datacarriersize filter in the hopes that BitVMers use OP_RETURN instead. 5. OK yes, this is total and utter submission to the attempts to optimize Bitcoin for data storage as opposed to monetary activity as per every other meaningless crypto but hey, we are just Bitcoin Core and you can run something else if you don't like it - isn't open source wonderful?! 6. OK if large numbers of Bitcoiners actually start running something other than Core we'll simply ignore the message being sent loudly and clearly - that a growing % of people running nodes have no interest in becoming free relays for spammers and miners and that in a sane world, the default implementation puts the priorities of monetary users above scammers and even miners. 7. OK we will invoke disaster scenarios that must come from spam filtration - centralized mining, bad fee estimation, poor block propagation - combine with other fear tactics about "Knots being maintained by one guy". 8. Respond to all debunking of the above disaster scenarios with simple assertions that those who disagree "occupy something other than reality". Rest on laurels of deeply established trust of Core that it is extremely painful for people to question. Contrast all this with the "filter-boi" side which have not needed to twist themselves into Knots trying to justify the unjustifiable - 1. Spam filters work, they optimize Bitcoin as a payment network rather than a generic database. 2. If you let filters fall into disrepair or maliciously break them then Bitcoin fails the same way cryptos always do - nodes become an abused and disregarded commons while we pretend we're decentralized.

I know man. Truth is being inside a walled garden is necessary sometimes.

How do you get around? Some places literally don't have cabs anymore unless you have Uber. Prague one example...

To be fair I have been using it since 2020 or so

I use GrapheneOS. Can't be making life too easy now can we. Need a couple apps to just not quite work right for that extra spice.

He means we would need 90%. It wouldn't need to be that much, I estimate about 70% for actually seriously disrupting spam.

Thank you to everyone who has switched to Bitcoin Knots.

Happy father's day!

yeah? that a French thing?

Obviously amazing but still - it isn't steak tartare

Everyone failed. To be fair, it was a trick question.