i polled more than 25 institutional bitcoin investors we work with “where do you stand on bitcoin core vs. bitcoin knots” results: 1) I’m Pro-Core: 18% 2) I’m Pro-Knots: 0% 3) I don’t know / I am ambivalent: 36% 4) I haven’t heard of this at all: 46% the knots supporters are literally inventing this problem and pushing it on the world where no problem exists at all. its all hypothetical in their examples (“grandma, download this malware from block 920,000” etc) and real capital, real investors, service providers, even government officials see no problem at all or are unaware there’s even a debate at best it’s a hypothetical problem, and their proposed solution does nothing to solve the (fake) problem they claim is real even if it is adopted all their legal theories are mumbo jumbo and the fears about them are ones that everyone got comfortable with years ago during early debates over the legality of permissionless decentralized systems. let me say this again: we already won the debate about permissionless systems. these people want to roll back the liberty to operate a decentralized system that we spent years earning and defending because they are afraid (and bored?). they sound like bitcoin’s most uninformed critics of years past — the most likely outcome of this debate remains that no one cares and they fade into obscurity the second most likely outcome is they incept the problem they fear into existence by scaring everyone away from bitcoin, and still their fork ideas fail a third and exceedingly distant likelihood is that their proposed changes become adopted… but even in that unlikely scenario, their solutions fall short. and because their solutions fall short and they will have scared the world into fearing permissionless systems, bitcoin adoption will be irreparably harmed these people are scared statists who fear permissionless systems and will do great damage to bitcoin if they are taken seriously bitcoin ouroboros 😵