Tyler Burns on Nostr: It baffles me there are people that want any sizable portion of the bitcoin network ...

It baffles me there are people that want any sizable portion of the bitcoin network running on knots. It isn't just about code review either. Knots has one dev/maintainer. This means you could potentially have one single dev with the ability to push out a code change that people running knots will blindly install upon new release.

Imagine if 50%+ of the bitcoin network were running Knots with one person having the ability to maintain the code of all those nodes. That is a scary proposition and it is insane to me that there are bitcoiners promoting that idea.

Imagine a backdoor in all those nodes or a breaking code change. Yes, many would catch the change and not push said new release to their nodes, but many would. Yes, it would very quickly become breaking news for all to urgently hear in the community. But that's not the point. That's not how you maintain the codebase for a multi-trillion dollar monetary network. You don't have one maintainer for a critical codebase like this.

It isn't one person "standing on the backs of giants." It is one person with control.

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You didn't read my reply did you?

It is a very valid argument that what ever figure you put on the number of Core developers, you can add one to that for Knots, so if you say 200 devs, then Knots has 201.

If I take any code and add a couple of lines or change a few parameters and create my own version, I haven't written that app by myself, I have modified an app written by others by a small amount.