That's a tough one.
First, let me state that I will never upgrade to v30. I'll keep my old node has long as it works. If need be, I'll switch to whatever other implementation is possible at that time.
Second, if the kind of content you mentioned makes it into op_return, I think I will :
1. make my node private,
2. have a new node that will be pruned to keep as little data as possible and have that be the public-facing node (again, as long as it's a previous version of Core or it's Knots), and
3. configure my private node (1) to only connect to my pruned node.
I might also consider a satellite node, so it never connects to anyone else.
Hopefully, some third implementation comes along.
If the kind of bad content you mentioned makes it into op_return and if neither older versions of Core nor Knots work, and if we don't get a third implementation, I'll stop running a node.
That the Core team got it that bad, and then doubled-down, really shook my faith in the project. I felt spiritual clarity during the blocksize war and the bcash fork. This is different. That both Greg Maxwell and Adam Back seem to have lost the plot is very concerning.
I never trusted Newberry since I saw him drop a pen during a presentation and not pick it up again. Someone who is not autistic enough to feel like he must pick up the pen that he dropped, shouldn't be touching the code for the monetary system of all of humanity. I also don't trust his underlings.
I still want to believe that bitcoin is "manifest destiny", that Bitcoin is destined to be humanity's best weapon against the dystopia that the Parasites are pushing on us. That bitcoin is the fire from Prometheus. I used to feel that, but with these events, this belief has been shaken and is now only a hope.
@ODELL @BTC Sessions
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