I actually think it's healthy to have more implementations. Regardless of where I stand on any particular bip.

Currently it's btcd, which is a completely separate codebase from Core. Or perhaps older versions of Core. Whereas Knots is just Core with Luke's embellishments tacked on. They're exactly the same otherwise. It's Bitcoin Luke's Vision. Maybe what people really mean by a third option is a third for...

Libbitcoin

O establishment precisa de um bode expiatório, então cria dois polos. Onde fica o terceiro caminho, o verdadeiro desafio ao status quo?

https://blossom.ditto.pub/407e7b1250c4f559bdb7a68001e43f8318ae8bd1c69e233524313ab9cd4816a5.mp4

There's libre, btcd, libbitcoin, and probably whatever Amir Taaki has been working on the past several years with DarkFi.

MOAR FORKS !!