There was a manual on how to switch from Core to knots. I did that am happy to have been amongst the “I hate that you merge things that are splitting the community”-team. Even though I like the technical change Core30 introduced.
Now with the hardfork talk / BIP-110 I no longer want to be part of this movement. I want the best bitcoin and the best ist imho Core30 and I ran knots just to “vote against node centrality”. And I still would like to run other software than Bitcoin-Core for that reason. But Luke takes it way to far for my taste.
How can I switch back safely, without my lightning node running into issues?
And side question: Why is Core30 still not available? All the other updates get online asap, like core lightning and electrs. Are the devs taking sides here? It’s there right to do so, as it’s their product. I’m just interested in the why.
I believe it is unfortunately more nuanced than that , it is a “soft” fork by definition. It could end up in a chain split, this is why the activation scheme is for 55% of miners to signal, “MASF’’. if it does not get that much miner support the “game theory” being employed could end up in the Non 110 supporters to decide to “hard fork’’ URSF, so as not to risk their version of the chain being wiped out if and when the BIP 110 chain receives enough hash or has difficulty adjustment that allows that chain to catch up and surpass.
This is my understanding of the process simplified of course, DYO research
It’s a miner activated soft fork, tightening rules not loosening them, so it isn’t a hard fork. There might be risk of a chain split, but without any hash on the BIP-110 chain it effectively would be a neutered chain since the difficulty would be insurmountable. A minority faction of nodes signaling with knots/BIP-110 isnt going to be a hard fork of anything, it’s just to show the miners (and really the exchanges) where users want the future to be: Bitcoin as money, or Bitcoin as… something else, anything goes, Ethereum 2.0
But there certainly is a lot of FUD running around out there.