Oddbean new post about login | logout The reservation I have about Knots is that I don’t know how reliable the code-base is. I can’t vet it myself and I don’t know how if others have done it already. Any info here?
@GrassFedBitcoin @Luke Dashjr Do you want to give brief explanation on this? I think one of you would be best guy to talk about this.
It's a fork of Core. Just makes a few things user configurable that aren't in Core. It's extremely low risk vs independent, ground-up implementations like BTCD which have fallen out of consensus before. There isn't really that risk but of course there are fewer eyeballs on Knots than Core.
No worse than Core. Arguably better since it includes many more fixes
Where do I safely download Knots? Will you ever consider implementing TXHASH, CTV or other upgrades? Feels like there needs to be a downstream repository where upgrades / soft forks can be merged and downloaded safely. I’d like to run this stuff to get the ball rolling.
https://BitcoinKnots.org Softforks require community support
Thank you. Any chance you will merge CTV and/or TXHASH in the future?
Again, softforks require community support
What if you made the code base for certain soft forks available so the community members that wanted to could support these changes? It seems talking about it on xitter and nostr isn’t enough. Something actionable could be a good barometer if support does actually exist. I would run Knots + TXHASH so that it could exist and be an option. Maybe others would too. I’m not a technical so if this line of thinking doesn’t make sense just understand I don’t fully understand why. But I’m saying this stuff in good faith as someone who wants to push things forward.