Bitcoin Knots

Despite on-chain data, the “customer war” in Bitcoin does not subside

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Murch, Bitcoin Core developer and editor of the official network improvement proposals (BIP) repository, published on-chain data showing that OP_RETURN outputs larger than 83 bytes represent just 0.0032% of Bitcoin’s total block space. In his publication, he described that percentage as “shocking” (in an ironic tone) directed towards those who warned that Bitcoin Core v.30 … Read more

Jameson Lopp warned Knots nodes running BIP-110 that they will be out of Bitcoin

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BIP-110 is a soft fork proposal for Bitcoin that aims to mitigate the use of arbitrary data. In Lopp’s vision, nodes that activate the new version of Knots will disappear. A day after the release of the new version of the Bitcoin Knots client (29.3.knots20260508), which activates the BIP-110 soft fork proposal by default, developer … Read more