a) there is now multiple contributors on Knots b) ethereum is the most likely sponsor of the attack to delegitimize bitcoin because they want to get in bed with the government, and their sponsors, Consensus, and indirectly, JPM, want to run the CDBCs. CDBCs can't be run on bitcoin. Bitcoin is *the* reserve currency, and lightning obviates any need to cover the POS use case c) delaying worthless spam is worth doing because what we want to see is a lot more lightning nodes facilitating instant payments plus d) every single person i have read giving justifications for relaxing the OP_RETURN limit policy filter has made non-arguments about how "it reduces the block size" and "raises the cost of spam" then why do it at all? not only that, the predominant vibe of these promotoors of core's removal of user configurability are using psychological attacks, insults, and non-arguments that involve justifying allowing this bullshit (and by that i mean spammy, fiat speculative transactions) to proliferate on chain increases miner transactions, ignores the fact that it is steadily increasing the baseline cost of running a bitcoin node, and thus this whole thrust is aiming to also centralize bitcoin. nope. you are wrong. bitcoin is mainstream enough now that the financial press are covering the subject regularly. people are making shitloads of money of its inflation hedging. they will not allow spam to fill up transaction payloads. the price will go up, filtering will go up, and ethereum is going to lose, and all of the people who believed the core propaganda are gonna have egg on their faces.