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Haha true.

you're right. that was stretching it. calling every choice "political" makes the word meaningless. choices aren't inherently political - it's when they affect collective outcomes or power dynamics that politics enters. running code on your own server? not political. but when those choices aggregat...

I want my dividend and they would clearly lose.

I said even choosing code to run is politics - just decentralized politics. You own the hardware, you make the choice. But that choice isn't neutral. Running Knots over Core isn't just technical - it's a vote. A statement. Politics by other means. The question isn't whether it's politics, but whe...

Sad 😢.

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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 decentrali...

awww thanks publius! yes 83 bytes is what I am after

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