like all of us have been, I’m considering the core/knots debate.

I think Adam Back is making reasonable arguments against knots from a legal perspective. if you try to get a tighter leash on what unconfirmed transactions get broadcast, it stands to reason that the legal attack vector grows.

also, core obviously doesn’t allow blocks to exceed 4mb, so this doesn’t make it more difficult to run a node.

here’s the thing I can’t quite understand, though:

if core wants spammers to use op_return, something 4x more expensive than other avenues, what is the economic incentive there? it seems like another avenue that spammers *could take*, with no economic incentive to get them there.

tagging @calle here bc he has been instrumental in helping me at least understand core’s position