According to updated CoinDance data, 22.81% of Bitcoin’s public nodes are already running on Bitcoin Knots clients. In total, the network has 24,891 achievable nodes, of which 19,168 use Bitcoin cores and 5,678 knots.
Overcoming 20% of nodes synthesizes milestones of sustained movement of operators from core to knot for the strictest policy in Mempur.
This knot adoption maintains the 40-byte limit of OP_return to prioritize financial uses, contrasting with Bitcoin core, but increasingly dominant at around 77%.
Driven by the technical preferences of many users, this trend will accelerate from 2024 onwards Those who want to avoid Bitcoin Block’s non-financial data.
Recently, the climate between developers and Bitcoin nodes has been strengthened with discussions about the Bitcoin Core V30 update, which will be coming in October. Increases the OP_Return limit to 100,000 bytes.
Critics believe there is a risk of turning Bitcoin into a “toxic garbage cube” full of illegal content and JPGs, but defenders argue that Bitcoin Core doesn’t blame the network and its use cases.
Recently, knobs have appeared in humorous tones. As a proof of the concept of knot branching, which allows for “extreme” configurations such as OP_CAT, even the loss of node connections is at risk thanks to a very wide configuration policy.