I don't know what it is, but KDE always feels not right to me...

I would be in favor of making another change that had similar uncertainty as taproot. I think that's around where my bar is.

I think "Both -datacarrier and -datacarriersize options have been marked as deprecated and are expected to be removed in a future release." should be reverted for now. Nice to see progress on StratumV2. I'm not sure what value does the "bitcoin" command provide...

Sidenote - Luke and Knots are very much in support of covenants, BitVM, etc: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqstacvsnlpj08ldascctk0scpt8lz92zl59eeyud75agz8xr025ugsd3r864

Yes, I agree with the argument and different people will have a different tolerance here. Some things are hard to predict and take time to mature.

My guess would be that in 2 years from now there will be much wider taproot adoption with at least 2 notably taproot-only beneficial usecases being deployed and used. At that point, if that happens, I would vote YES.

For me it slightly lowered my fees, from usage standpoint it's exactly the same UX across the board and then I'm happy if there are some privacy or scaling capabilities that this enables for me or others in future.

To be clear this is why in the survey I voted "Mixed (please comment)". While I'm using taproot across the board (apparently in some cases also in LN context), it has not been a complete game changer. There is a recent uptick in usage, which may be a good sign, but we will have to see.

My recently gained perspective is that when you don't have money, then debt is a trap and you want to get out of debt as soon as possible. On the other hand, if you actually have enough money and you are "rich", then in the current money system, debt is actually a very good strategy to use. This is of course messed up, but also it's a reality. Bitcoin makes this situation better.

When you talk to people that are very rich, the money works differently for them. Money can essentially be created from nowhere for them. You want 50M USD? Sure, let's round it to 100M because that's a nicer number. The amount truly doesn't matter - what matters is what cashflows it creates.

Yeah, I realized this below too. Brainfart on my side.

I completely forgot that LND actually did them. Well, so I think I'll be on taproot channels soon :)

Simple Taproot Channels are just being developed, there's no actual prod solution yet. Acinq is making the most progress here from what I can tell.

I guess I'm special. It's been quite long time since I last used anything onchain that's not taproot. The only non-taproot is when using lightning.

(just to highlight for other readers - Taproot is now 10% by output value and 20% by output count)

Oh, so your point is that there are not many taproot addresses with notable bitcoin amounts?

Why not keep bitcoin in taproot addresses, what's the story there?

I have seen multiple folks report the opposite - Knots taking more resources. Knots does quite a bit of extra things that I haven't seen much scrutinized and my guess is some of that takes more CPU. I haven't tested this though.

People can do covenants on Liquid: https://blog.blockstream.com/covenants-in-production-on-liquid/

So is this the right way to run Knots?

bitcoind -corepolicy=1 -datacarriersize=100000

There are also custom gaming distros, like https://batocera.org/

My preference is installing the most clean Debian possible and only adding things on top that you want. The good thing is that new Debian was released recently, so you get fairly up to date versions of everything.

E.g. follow something like https://www.fosslinux.com/49956/install-debian-11-minimal-server.htm and then when you get to console and install plain "gnome-core":

apt install sudo
apt install gnome-core
# Set GUI login for next time
systemctl enable gdm && systemctl set-default graphical.target

# install basics
apt install zsh flatpak gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

If Windows works for you, you can keep it, especially if you use some special gaming hardware (steering wheel, joysticks...). Linux now has decent gaming support thanks to SteamDeck being Linux based. Linux is fun though and it gives you freedom. Check out the video from PewDiePie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0