Core 30 removes options for managing a node. Knots adds more options. Knots can be setup to allow as much "spam" as Core 30. Core 30 cannot be setup to limit "spam" as much as Core 29. Otherwise, it's nearly the same code. This is all you really need to know about the Core vs Knots debate.

Unexpected discovery. Assuming total hyperbitcoinization does occur, even once the block subsidy hits zero, the "break-even" cost to maintain the current all-time high network security in sats/vbyte terms is under 1 sat/vbyte. That assumes no improvements in electrical efficiency too. So even if nearly all of the transactions are occurring off-chain, the few that do need to use onchain can keep the network secure rather easily for hundreds if not thousands of years.

@calle There's an opportunity right now for significant Cashu adoption in a short burst. Visa and Mastercard have forced Steam to ban thousands of games, and change their platform rules, in order to stay in business.
There are tens of millions of people who are currently seeing a direct pain point around the flow of money, and are actively focused on it to the point of calling politicians by the thousands. Steam is absolutely enormous, and the globe is feeling the impact.
Because Cashu is provably anonymous spending, it solves this problem in totality. If we can anonymize Valve to the payment processors with Cashu, especially if we can save them on fees while we're at it, and get them the dollars they are currently after while doing so, this could be huge for adoption, and for exposure to the bitcoin ethos.

The Achilles heel.

Why am I not seeing any discussion online about SMS verification overload?
I've asked a fair amount of people in person about this, and not one has received every single SMS verification code they ever had to deal with in the proper time window. Literally everyone I've asked has been unable to log into a service because they didn't receive that text in time to use it at least once. A few have lost funds because they couldn't cancel a service, or couldn't pay a bill, because they coudn't access the account. One even has been unable to change their phone provider in months because they can't alter the account, that guy gets less than 1 in 20 messages in time.
Plenty of these services also do not offer the option of 2FA app verification, which would prevent this problem. The modern net is literally breaking in a fundamental fashion for at least a niche of people, they can't do anything about it, and no one seems to be discussing it?

We often say "Fix the money, fix the world." I have a better phrase. "Fix the money, or die."
If the money is not fixed, the inevitable outcome is that every person who has to earn that 'money' consistently in order to feed themselves and keep a roof over their head, will eventually have to work 25 hours a day, 8 days a week, in order to earn enough money just to eat. Or in other words, everyone that works for a living will starve to death and die unless shit changes.
It is far easier to get people to see the bitcoin mission when you point out to workers in the economy that this is the reality that faces them. It's tangibly real to them now.

Recently had my first encounter with nostr-based tools entirely outside of nostr or bitcoin circles. It was with DEG Mods (https://degmods.com/) being highlighted as an alternative to Nexusmods for hosting, given Nexus having a well established history now of banning mods people want that don't play along with DEI ethics. The fact that DEG Mods is built on top of nostr wasn't even mentioned.

This is how nostr actually ends up taking market share. By being the unstoppable source of a valuable service suffering from censorship.

What options have been developed for using micropayments to fund cloud hosted multiplayer games? #asknostr

The creator of 5D Diplomacy (https://github.com/Oliveriver/5d-diplomacy-with-multiverse-time-travel) mentioned in his breakdown on youtube that the primary reason he didn't setup hosting for it is because he'd have gone bankrupt if enough people all decided to play his game. If he were in a position to charge per game, he might have done it, and anyone could.