Bitcoin Transaction Fees and "block rewards" are incentivizing mining and re-imbursing the computational effort. It is not a fee that pays for storage. Data gets stored for all of eternity and as the network grows ever more redundantly. Fees cant pay for that. Participants are willing to store blockchain data for free, because they benefit from being able to use bitcoin because of it. The same benefit does not exist for any non-transactional data. I think too few people are aware of bitcoin fees not paying for the storage side of things, which is an important fact to consider when weighing arguments in the core30 vs knots debate

Two long interviews about the knots vs core issue. One with Jimmy Song and Adam Back. The other with Luke Dashjr and Mechanic And Jimmy Song as well. It goes back and forth a lot and both sides present their side. It's nuanced and they touch every detail https://www.youtube.com/live/9p_OBGQityg https://www.youtube.com/live/UtGC5wRWB3k My personal take: After a lot of back and forth, it really boils down to whether you want long term development towards bitcoin as money (store of value, payments, ...) or highly expensive but resilient general data storage. Knots mission statement is the former. Cores mission statement is the latter.