Bitcoin Core 30 — The Great Betrayal How Knots Defends Node Sovereignty and the Right to Choose Bitcoin began as a revolution — a decentralized network where every node operator had full control over what their system did and didn’t do. It was built on freedom: freedom from banks, from governments, and from centralized control. But with Bitcoin Core 30 , that freedom is under attack. The Core developers have started removing filters — the tools that allow node operators to decide which transactions and messages they relay. Without these filters, nodes are forced to relay everything on the network — junk, spam, or worse — with no way to say no. That’s not decentralization. That’s obedience . Your Node, Your Rules Running a Bitcoin node has always meant running your own piece of the network — under your control. You choose what to validate, what to relay, and how to participate. But when Core removes those filters, it’s effectively saying: “We decide what your node ...