Untangling Knots vs. Core | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 66
Aired Oct 4, 2025 · 1h 23m · Last boosted Oct 9, 2025
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In this episode of The Bitcoin Brief, Max and Q delve into the latest happenings in the world of Bitcoin and privacy. In this Bitcoin Brief, Q and Max dive into the escalating Core vs. Knots debate, sparked by leaked DMs suggesting a potential hard fork proposal from Luke Dashjr to address CSAM-related concerns via a trusted multisig and ZK proofs. We unpack why leaking private messages is a bad precedent, the slippery-slope risks of any centralised arbiter of “bad data,” and how such a scheme could fracture consensus and even create a hard fork. From there, we la...
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So good to get a reasonable perspective on the Core/Knots debate.
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English fags. Max is an undercover Knotzi
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I wonder how long the feedback loop will be to determine the consequences of more node runners taking the configuration of their nodes into greater consideration. Seems like it could take a while before hindsight becomes 2020.
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Great episode. I really appreciate your perspectives. Its so important to keep people's feet on the ground in the "church of bitcoin", as the pie-in-the-sky thinking, built around a desire for a future utopia makes a lot of the people in this space dislocated from reality of the big bad world that exists. They're divorced from the fact that some dangerous motherfuckers are coming for them and their sovereignty, whic…
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Brits eat SPAM?! Damn y'all are more like us rednecks than I thought! I've always referred to SPAM as “stuff posing as meat" but it's good if cooked correctly in some fried rice. Or Spam Masubi which is like sushi but with spam. I guess Hawaii is halfway between Southeast Asia and the rednecks in the Southern United States so it's a nice mix! Thanks for your explanation of the Knots vs.Core debate. I appreciate y'al…
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📤 Boost Sent! 👤 Sender: @ChadF and 33 others 💬 Message: thank you guys for the great content. Enjoy the diversity in the shows and you can just tune in and out. I haven't listened in a few weeks but saw the Core vs Knots title so tuned back in. That's the beauty of podcasting after all. The episodes just set there until you have time or you just skip them and maybe…
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All UTXOs are economically arbitrary until they are in a TX I'm creating.
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