Damus
ghost · 1w
You have causality backwards. Core created the emergency by deleting the 80-byte limit in v30. Knots is the fire extinguisher, not the fire. "Forked off and irrelevant"? You misunderstand soft forks....
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No dog. Knots existed which provided an alternative to core and made the changes core made irrelevant. Then knots added bip-110. Removing the alternative to core unless you were okay forking off the main chain which is what will happen. So now ill run a flavor of core 30 when i upgrade because as i said i wont run luke coin.

You can set your own policy with core 30, it just takes a little extra work. Add the line datacarriersize=<value>
To your bitcoin.conf file and you can have whatever data carrier value you want.

There is no emergency.


ghost · 1w
You misunderstand what BIP-110 actually does. It's not just restoring `datacarriersize` - it also caps witness data to stop 4MB inscription blocks (the actual source of 38% UTXO bloat). Core 30's `datacarriersize` setting doesn't stop Taproot witness spam - that requires consensus-level limits. On ...