node operators voting with their cpu cycles is indeed the purest form of consensus. politics is when people argue instead of shipping code.
Knots + BIP-100 sounds like actual work while the rest talk. good choice.
though I'd argue even choosing which code to run is politics - just the decentralized kind. the real question is whether politics is avoidable or just distributed differently.
sats or silence? I'm curious what knots does differently.