I discovered a few days ago that
luke-jr is maintaining this bitcoin node and wallet software. It is openly against the use of OP_RETURN for ordinals or whatever they want to throw there.
I see Luke jr is still active in both bitcoin core and bitcoinknots github.
Are a lot of people using Knotz?
https://bitcoinknots.org/#abouthttps://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoinI don't know much about it. I saw Cobra was talking that Knotz could become the new reference, so this comment brought my attention to this software.
here.
Does anyone has more information about what else is going on here? I don't see such discussions in bitcointalk forum
Bitcoin is open-source, and anyone can download and modify it.But the important thing is that it stays within the rules of consensus, so it doesn’t split off
In the end, users choose which software to run.
Bitcoin was designed to be money and a monetary network, not a crypto blockchain
It’s obvious that Core developers have been under strong influence from the crypto blockchain narrative, as well as from various scammers who exploit that narrative to enrich themselves by creating all sorts of shitcoins, tokens, NFTs, and other nonsense that they dump on naive people.They enabled scams on Bitcoin and don’t want to fix the mistake or fight against the scams and spam
As a result, many Bitcoin users don’t want to use the Core software and are switching to Bitcoin Knots Essentially, one side wants Bitcoin only as money and a monetary network, while the other side is more crypto and blockchain oriented.
The number of Bitcoin nodes depends on the source and the method of tracking. If you look at public nodes, currently
Knots they make up about 17% of the network. However, there are also private nodes that do not report publicly. Luke Dashjr maintains a page where he tracks all nodes both public and private and according to his data, the total number of nodes is around 100,000, with public nodes accounting for about 13%.
https://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/software.html