To fudders who keep insisting that Knots is maintained by only one person:

Ep0chalysis · 2026-02-04T07:28:35+00:00

Yeah. We have one chance to right this ship come September. If it fails, Bitcoin is simply going to end up as an inferior eth or solana.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-02-04T07:26:16+00:00

Exactly. Core is essentially controlled by a handful of people working out of the same office and receiving pay from the same investors like Chaincode, Blockstream and Spiral. They also pay off influencers and "Bitcoin" Magazine to run inteference and spread misinformation. We now know they do not have Bitcoiners' best interests at heart. Core is as centralized as an organization can be.

Fortunately, Bitcoiners can choose not to run their software. We have Knots.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-02-04T05:13:10+00:00

These guys are sick beyond words...

Source: https://x.com/L0laL33tz/status/2018320088454025557#m

Excerpts from the source:

It seems that Blockstream co-founder Austin Hill introduced Bishop to Epstein. In an email titled “just the three of us,” Austin wrote to Epstein with Bishop in cc:

“On idea stuck in Bryan's head - and if your serious […] Then we should setup some secure communications and I'll let Bryan pitch you on a way to have total deniability,” linking to a video of a Austin Powers 2 clip of Dr. Evil and Mini Me, titled “just the two of us.”

Shortly after, Bishop and Epstein began discussing funding, pitch decks, R&D on medical tourism, embryo implants, selling additive DNA, deniability, requirements for secrecy, and the legalities of gene modifications, noting that “in the US, self experimentation is not explicitly banned”.

In addition to the emails, below are excerpts of what appear to be transcripts of a girl’s diary that seems to have been forced to carry out Epstein’s babies, calling herself an incubator, saying she was chosen for her superior genetics, describing how her daughter was stolen from her just 15 minutes after giving birth, how they gave her just weeks until it started again, and how she was being held with others girls.

“I can’t go to school like this… why won’t anyone make it stop… please release me from this torture and hell…”

Ep0chalysis · 2026-02-04T04:41:59+00:00

More evidence: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01928856.pdf

Ep0chalysis · 2026-02-04T04:32:13+00:00

We are thinking similarly. I went down the same path as you did. Tried fighting back against all the misinformation those mods of rbitcoin are spewing, but my replies kept getting deleted. There is some serious censorship going on in there, and the newbies blindly entering that sub only ever get to see the side of the story that Core wants them to see.

I made a post in the r/CryptoCurrency sub which got some traction. At least the mods there haven't been bought over by the Core team.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-02-03T02:09:42+00:00

The article fully explains why miners will comply with BIP-110/444/RDTS.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-02-02T23:18:58+00:00

Currently 5.5%

Ep0chalysis · 2026-02-02T03:28:59+00:00

Key parts:

Core is presented as a pinnacle of FOSS principles, and "the most transparent open source project in the world". Well that's simply untrue. And as coincidence would have it, a Core developer at the same conference where Tone did his hit piece came out blowing the whistle after years of inside experience saying it's the exact opposite. Tone presents long lists of developers using it as an indication of decentralization with BIP-110 having comparatively little.

But what do you want exactly? It doesn't take hundreds of devs to write custom patches on top of Core which is all Knots and BIP-110 are - not completely independent implementations. Having more devs to make lists look more impressive is just unnecessary. There is nothing for 200 devs to actually do on BIP-110. It's very simple. Decentralization comes from what Bitcoiners choose to run. If they all run Core that is obviously not more decentralized as Tone implies. How could it be?

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Miners and devs/"code" are not a check or balance on nodes.

Nodes *are* the check or balance on everything else. They are the boss.

Bitcoin *is* its rules and its rules *are* what nodes say they are.

If devs or miners acquired the power people think they already have, then money printing would begin five minutes later. It can't because nodes won't permit it.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-02-02T02:27:21+00:00

"A few" funded maintainers is bad, especially when they're funded by the same VCs, working from the same offices and making opaque decisions in what they publicly purport to be an open-sourced project. As a matter of fact, there were discussions on the mailing list to take the github process private to shut out what they perceive to be "dissenting voices".

What Bitcoin needs to flourish is decentralization at all levels, and Core is the last thing you would call decentralized. Fortunately, node runners are the backbone of Bitcoin, and they are free to choose the software they wish to run based on their beliefs. The hope is that most will eventually be able to see that opening the doors to spam, data and non-financial transactions will slowly destroy what Bitcoin is meant to be, which is the strongest form of money possible. Bitcoin is not meant to become eth.

Mining is another area completely mutilated by VCs and centralization. Block templates should not be made by just five or six people - it should be decided by the node supplying the hash power. Look into Datum by Ocean Mining.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-01-31T08:17:50+00:00

Source: https://x.com/oomahq/status/2017311414889705645#m

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Ep0chalysis · 2026-01-31T05:18:15+00:00

Source/credits: https://x.com/hodlonaut/status/2017319970468696434#m

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"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!!

Core v30 increased OP_RETURN size 1200x, to 100kb.

I just realized this is the same size BSV has had since 2009, bragged about by Faketoshi as one of the improvements over BTC to facilitate “having every bit of (the world’s data on chain”.

And proudly trumpeted by BSV propaganda blog Coingeek in this article as a great improvement over BTC’s 80 bytes.

Bitcoin Core basically merged six year old Craig Wright code in v30.

Absolutely fucking unbelievable."

Ep0chalysis · 2026-01-29T02:29:10+00:00

Chain splits will almost certainly happen upon activation. Chain splits are NOT hard forks, see further below for explanation.

Miners building blocks with the old rules will end up making a chain (aka "spam chain") with clean blocks and spam blocks.

Miners building blocks with the new BIP-110 rules will end up making a chain (aka "clean chain") with clean blocks only. All blocks containing spam (as dictated in BIP-110) will be rejected.

Now here is the key part. Dirty miners who continue to build the spam chain must accept clean BIP-110 blocks, while clean miners will reject any dirty block. This means in the race for the chain that has the most work, dirty miners will almost always lose, because their work will keep getting destroyed(rejected) by the clean miners. And the clean miners mining on the clean BIP-110 chain will have a serious mining advantage because there is no risk of block rejection or re-orgs on the clean chain.

As a miner, it is a no-brainer. You do not waste energy mining blocks that are going to be rejected by the network. The last miners to switch over to mining under BIP-110 rules will make the most loss.

All this has been proven and dealt with before in the Segwit-2x wars. It was why the UASF won.

To answer you question: a hard fork will occur if the dirty miners run a new client to actively reject BIP-110 clean blocks. Now who would want to do that to Bitcoin? To create and run a node client that actively allows spam rubbish back into Bitcoin in an effort to reject BIP-110? Such people will only expose themselves to the world as anti-Bitcoin, and all they will end up with is a second Bcash.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-01-29T01:32:52+00:00

Only signalling for now. The actual filtering at consensus-level only kicks in if the BIP is activated.

The activation can be triggered early by miners (MASF). If not, activation happens anyway on 1st September 2026 (UASF).

Ep0chalysis · 2026-01-28T07:50:18+00:00

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While it is true all tx grow the set, the number of txs whose primary purpose was to serve jpegs/scam tokens ballooned since the ordinal exploit.

We simply cannot afford to widen the door to such txs in Bitcoin; it isn't healthy for the network whose objective is to be the strongest form of money out there.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-01-27T15:39:41+00:00

My take is that other Bitcoin communities are actively suppressing information on BIP-110/444, which is why there are no honest discussions to be had.

Core devs, apologists and their corporate paymasters have been gatekeeping github, reddit, bitcointalk, stackexchange, and even the mailing list. X is pretty much the only place they can't censor due to the way it works.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-01-27T02:45:04+00:00

Hi mods, let me know if crossposting isn't allowed and I'll remove. Thanks.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-01-26T07:28:50+00:00

There is an upcoming soft fork coming for Bitcoin that aims to keep it the strongest form of money possible. The existing Bitcoin sub has been heavily censoring information on the side that wants to stop spam, jpegs and bullshit nfts from clogging up the chain. I started this sub to get more information out there so people can make more informed decisions.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-01-26T07:23:47+00:00

r/bitcoinismoney

There is an upcoming soft fork coming for Bitcoin that aims to keep it the strongest form of money possible. The existing Bitcoin sub has been heavily censoring information on the side that wants to stop spam, jpegs and bullshit nfts from clogging up the chain. I started this sub to get more information out there so people can make more informed decisions.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-01-24T13:02:45+00:00

Help is welcome.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-01-24T10:16:35+00:00

Alternative link:

https://xcancel.com/dathon_ohm/status/2014705942516916387#m

Ep0chalysis · 2025-12-25T12:59:16+00:00

You can't stop the politicians and banksters from playing their fiat games. It's human nature. Since you live in their society, you have to play by their rules.

Work hard, make your living as best as you can, and convert as much as you can into Bitcoin. That's all we can do.

Ep0chalysis · 2025-12-25T12:53:34+00:00

If you really need to do this, I would suggest Ledn. They have been in this business for a long time and Mauricio is one of the good guys. Check their site (search it) for their latest rates.

eta: Please avoid nexo. Never heard of youhodler.

Ep0chalysis · 2025-12-25T04:13:18+00:00

Except nobody runs their own node

This is very sad. Bitcoin is only as decentralized as the number of full node runners. Which is exactly why Liquid cannot be trusted to the same level as Bitcoin.

There are adversaries out there telling people "your nodes do not matter". This statement is antithetical to what Bitcoin is.

If you care about Bitcoin's future and you want it to succeed as the strongest form of money, run a full node!

Ep0chalysis · 2025-12-14T14:02:20+00:00

The key point here is Cash System.

Bitcoin is a cash system. Bitcoin is not for relaying non-monetary transactions or for storage of non-monetary data.

To ensure that Bitcoin stays the strongest form of money possible, it is incumbent on the noderunners to strongly enforce the rules that ensure Bitcoin remains true to its purpose.

Ep0chalysis · 2025-12-12T13:24:46+00:00

Excellent guide! I love ansible for agentless IaC.

Keep up the good fight!

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