Sure, it is just one of the several heads of the Hydra you talked about earlier. You still have to burn off that one.

It is somehow disturbing that at spam free blocks are declared as less healthy.

Not many have upgraded to Core 29.1 yet. So far only 332 did. Will Core 30.0 be even worse? Somehow reminds me of SegWit2x.

Bitcoin as a whole is larger than the ego of any of its developer. Long forgotten are Gavin Andresen, Mike Hearn etc. So will be the current ones that still resist to listen to the community and still doubling done with their narrow-minded technical arguments not seeing the social economic dimension of Bitcoin.

It’s somewhat short‑sighted of some Bitcoiner to claim that the ongoing debate is not important and that Bitcoin will be fine anyway.  In fact, the very people who care enough to point out the current issues and put in the work are the ones ensuring that Bitcoin stays fine.

Running /Satoshi:29.1.0/Knots:20250903/

Including considerations of hard‑forking, the “Knots vs. Core” debate increasingly resembles a game of chicken. As the block‑size wars taught us, the party that either loses its composure or dramatically overestimates its own strength—and therefore forks first—ends up on the losing side.