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In this video, I discuss why 2025 has become a nightmare for me, and whether I think Bitcoin can survive the current attack.
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Simon Dixon on Core vs Knots:
“At this point, this looks like a years long consistent and well-designed attempt to sabotage the only lifeboat to exit the fiat system”:
Antoine seems to hate the very users of his software:
“You cannot develop software for users that you despise”:
What happens when this debate escapes our bubble:
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why keep bitcoin alive when there are much better networks and environments
Why do you support A. Tate?
I'm seeing many people promoting knots on reddit. Stay hopeful!
Freedom is messy.
But censorship is worse.
Bitcoin must remain neutral. 🌌
Thank you for keeping us informed
Using lightning seems safe, eh? Also liquid.
I’m running knots, thx Matthew
Thank you man
Is there a step by step instruction on how to set up a BTC Knots?
BSV OP_Return limit is 1GB not 100kb
Jeff Booth on Bitcoin Knots' side
https://youtu.be/T5oNkf3spZc?t=2132
Great vid
Start9 should completely remove Core from their OS and put Knots into the main applications repo.
Says the giy that holds 0 Botcoins. It was hijacked anyway. Bitcoin Cash is the true Bitcoin. So how many coins do you hold? Answer 0.
Dash
Well done Matthew, thank you for keeping us updated, we're with you!
Thank you
This may be an ignorant question because I really don’t know too much about the problem at hand but if something catastrophic fails, can’t we just roll back the change? Or is the worry not so much that it is a catastrophic all at once failure but a slow death?
Keep the fight going! Knots for the win!
Matt, I really personally appreciate what you are doing to spread the word about this. I’m with you and mechanic on the knots team. Keep spreading the message. Us who don’t have an audience and the voice to spread it to appreciate when high profile people such as yourself do it. Thank you.
Hi Matthew, what would be your best case scenario in this situation? Is there a percentage of knots you would consider a complete win over core?
Mevstake gives what banks never will! While they offer 0.01%, I get 0.87% EVERY DAY on USDT – numbers speak for themselves!
If Knots (and similar filtering-heavy policies) dominate, there’s risk that:
Relay bias: privacy transactions get dropped more often, or propagate slower, making them less reliable.
Fee market distortion: if some types of tx are deprioritized, miners who run Knots might see fewer of them and include fewer in blocks, raising effective costs for privacy users.
Centralization pressure: developers may avoid rolling out novel privacy protocols if they fear being flagged as spam by a subset of nodes.
❤
One of those thousands that migrated to knots.
Why
8:30 God complex + Victim mentality = Satanism. I know it sounds antiquated and “inefficient” but this is why engineers are supposed to also take humanities courses, so they have a backbone and ask “why” and “what for” instead of just “how”. I’ve met so many people with high IQs on paper that I wouldn’t trust with $20 to pay the pizza guy. Your intelligence becomes a liability for all of us if you’re not moral with it.
Kaspa will destroy Bitcoin within 5 year idiots
Running restrictive nodes mainly helps your own mempool, but doesn’t stop miners from including those transactions if fees are paid. A network-wide effect would need a critical mass of nodes + miners, otherwise the fee market regulates spam anyway. In the end, the only real winner of this drama is Luke Dashjr with his Knots client.
Sincere thanks, Matthew.
endless knots !
Great video, thank you.
Thank you Mathew for your work and bringing this to light
Keep it up Matthew we are here for you brother!! Hope is alive I can feel it and I know it’s difficult to keep doing what u do but we must keep our feet on there necks! Love you!
Keep fighting the good fight ✊
The problem with bitcoin and all crypto is that it not easily used by the masses. The problems you state are only going to get worse. The adoption can’t be fixed due to the complexity of all the turning points in it acquisition, holding and distribution. Best thing is for all the individual holders to sell. The individual grab will be great and let the whales and BlackRock use it to sink their own ships.
I’ll learn to run a knots node.
JavaScript sucks, has always sucked, and will always suck. As a dev dating back to the beginning of the internet , I can't believe JavaScript "won" as the default web language… yes there are a bunch of layer 2s now (e.g., TypeScript) but all that does is mask the unruly ugliness and insecurity of the javascript base layer. I don't have the answer… cats been outta the bag for too long to go back now. So yeah I know bitchin about JS isn't gonna do much but maybe a dev (much smarter than me) will find a fix to the javascript problem. In meantime, companies that write bitcoin software should remove node.js and all javascript libraries from their source and come up with a more secure solution. So there. lol.
Balanced and well researched as usual. This is the best channel available for the preservation of BTC and the benefit to humanity that represents.
CSAM sound suspiciously close to SCAM
Good work sir, keep fighting the good fight. Love from England
I have a Start 9 server and I'm running core. I'm very inexperienced. How do I run knots
Thank you for your honest thoughts. It does make trusting Bitcoin with a large part of one's wealth much more risky, not only based on this current issue, but the potential for others in the future. So even if Bitcoin goes to a million dollars it is possible the government could intervene on its use or ownership at any time. If Bitcoin is"dependent on its culture" it is in effect dependent on multiple unknown third parties, which is exactly what it was intended to avoid: third party risk. It's often been said not to invest in something you don't understand….I can see I don't understand all the ramifications of the interworkings of the Bitcoin system, and therefore will be very cautious.
I am just horrified, that people always have the urge to change things, that works as it should. That limit was there to keep it about money only. Don't they devs know what a unicorn they are working on ? Just leave the core alone, it works!
Unlike other DEXes, Mevstake supports multi-chain staking without needing multiple validators. Convenience wins!
Just Google Mevstake, you’ll thank me later for the solid returns
Im a bit confussed is bitcoin core bitcoin?
Another 4h to finish downloading the blockchain and I'm ready to run knots. Its been a while since I ran a node. Its very convenient to just use someone else's node but this type of situation that risks deadly reputational damage to the network will need all participats to cast a vote by running their own nodes and learn how to use their own wallets with their own nodes.