Great end to the long weekend!
Zero-JS Hypermedia Browser
The Core Node has 134,665 unconfirmed transactions that take up 331 MB.
Core Node mempool, note the majority of the block is categorized as "data" aka non-monetary transactions aka spam.
Knots Node mempool, note the significantly less amount of "data". (Looks like filters work after all!)
This tells me that there is an order of magnitude more non-monetary (spam) transactions than monetary transactions happening on the bitcoin network right now.
As someone who wants to see bitcoin used as money, this concerns me. This is the primary reason that I elect to run a Knots Node that filters out non-monetary transactions. Hopefully this visual representation will help people understand the difference between the two types of nodes.