My 2 sats. Core has been successful keeping the protocol safe so far. Unless one believes they have been compromised then there’s nothing to worry about from them. As far as I can tell, their technical arguments are sound.
The only thing I would do differently maybe is to remove the op_return limit once fees are consistently higher to deter so called spam.
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Waiting for higher fees means incentivising bad - but financially motivated - miner behaviour for longer too. So I guess core still has a point in doing it now.
Core devs weren’t able to explain or defend their technical arguments to the community. And above all, they acted arrogantly, disregarding any concerns from the community. They are supposed to be stewards—Bitcoin is not their private project; it’s a GLOBAL and PUBLIC monetary system!
> Unless one believes they have been compromised then there’s nothing to worry about from them
I don't think you (or anyone) means this, but in case anyone thinks that the only motivation to use knots is thinking the Core devs are compromised, there is absolutely another motivation: simple disagreement with their software choices. They've chosen to set the spam filters to certain values and stated their reasons for doing so. Without any ill will, one may simply prefer to set different spam filters and therefore adopt software that does so.
