One of the quiet but real differences between Bitcoin Knots and Bitcoin Core culture-wise:
Core often optimizes for forward motion
Knots optimizes for comprehension and restraint
Neither is βwrong,β but Knots tends to insist that if something is subtle, it must be explicitly documented. Especially when flags alter behavior without obvious surface effects.
Debt-funded mining is theft.
Not metaphorical.
Not symbolic.
Literal extraction from:
lenders
savers
energy producers
unsuspecting retail shareholders
and ultimately, the public
These entities risk nothing,
conjure imaginary digits,
commandeer real hardware,
consume real energy,
and then dump the externalities on everyone else.
When they collapse,
it is not tragedy β
it is justice catching up.