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63 sats \ 21 replies \ @028559d218 OP 2 Oct \ parent \ on: Which Fork will you Sell and/or Keep? Bitcoin Knots vs Bitcoin Core bitcoin
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I remember in some of the 'mega-discussions' posted by @Murch (which were awesome btw) what hard-fork would actually be required to permanently 'fix' the inscriptions and op_return issues. IE no inscriptions at all and no op_return at all which is datacarriersize=0? So that these things never propagate.
I have read about soft-fork proposals and more drastic hard-fork things... but it gets seriously in the weeds.
One thing I do believe is that there will be a fork eventually though Knots-users really really want it.
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What makes you think Knots users really really want a fork?
That's something I see them accused of, but the evidence for it hasn't impressed me.
My sense is that what they want is for Core to ease up on some of the v30 changes and reconsider the path they're taking forward.
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Knots users say to 'run knots'. There are legions of them on Nostr and Youtube and Twitter although I suspect some of them are bots.
What happens when core 30 gets released? Well the degens will show up attracted to the very controversy that is being generated... and come up ways to 'gamble' on something in op_return it could be absolutely anything. A new NFT new crayon-drawing new token the possibilities are endless.
"Run Knots" which is effectively a relay policy could eventually shift to "become Knots"... our 'filtering' isn't effective and core won't budge. And once people are Running Core 30 it doesn't get un-released it's out there?
So influencers in the Knots space will eventually pivot to other solutions that invalidate the arbitrary data in blocks creating their own separate chain.
The ironic thing I think is that once they start 'invalidating' the blocks they will create more controversy... so the spammers will show up to the knots-chain too and find some way to speculate on something. Then I guess they hard-fork again? I don't know. The more you fork the more controversy the more spammers/etc.
If people don't speculate on your chain it means they don't care about it.
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What's the difference between telling and suggesting?
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In this case, who's selling what?
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Is your sense that this is heavily skewed towards the Knots side?
They point out what seem to be much larger financial interests on the side of relaxing the filters.
Be careful about trying to read other people's intentions, especially those you aren't inclined to think well of.
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I used to think extremely well of Matt Kratter but he has completely gone off the deep end IMO.
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How so? I don't watch all of his videos but the ones I catch still seem reasonable.
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How about this one on mental telepathy https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fWyxzoFWAzs
Or this one about how JFK shot down a UFO https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6syCI3yKH6Q
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My general view is that, in an ideal world, people would focus on the topic at hand and explore all available arguments in depth, regardless of their source.
Unfortunately, with the amount of arguments on any topic, and the amount of topics to explore, this usually isn't feasible. So we need to reduce the number of arguments we will explore to a manageable amount. We can use the trustworthiness of the source to achieve this.
That opens the possibility of dismissing a valid argument based on the source, but I believe it is necessary given the unmanagable amount of arguments in total. In a single human lifetime, it impossible to explore everything.
There are strategies to avoid falsehoods when doing this, like occasionally going deep on a single topic to better identify the trustworthy sources, or once in a while randomly exploring a source you would have otherwise dismissed.
In summary, I feel very comfortable dismissing Kratters opinions on bitcoin based on his crazy-ass views on other topics. There are plenty of better sources for arguments counter to my beliefs without having to turn to a nutjob like Kratter.
To be fair, the claim was that he went off the deep end and, without having seen those videos, they do sound like they'd potentially support the claim.