Knots was an option before BIP110.
Very few people actually explain how a soft fork works, what percentage of nodes (or "economic nodes", whatever that means) or hashrate makes the difference, whether this is setting up a hard fork, and what happens if that happens, worst-case. How does each user decide which chain they're on, etc.? Maybe it's 3 hours in on some podcast I've missed, but it takes quite a bit of digging to find a good written rundown. Maybe someone can write a long-form article on Nostr on it.
My basic understanding: Whenever there's been a fork, whatever coin forked off has died. Usually it's been others initiating the controversial change - this time it's Core. v30 is the "fork" in my opinion, the departure from what has been, but Core has the advantage of being the default implementation everyone knows.
Feels a bit like voting. I want to decide based on what I believe is right, not which side I think will win. But I don't even understand the mechanics yet of how those things play out, where in an election, or a sports game, assuming things are honest, people know how winning works. And I have looked - I imagine many others haven't had a chance to try to learn about it.
I think this confusion is part of the price cooling off - other things scare the suitcoiners, only a few get under the skins of real Bitcoiners, but something like this can. When we're through it and these questions are answered, I think a lot of people will kick back into gear who have held back because of this uncertainty.
Grace and Truth
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2026-02-06 13:36:42 UTC
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