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The most interesting story in Bitcoin right now is the rise of $SATA in the credit markets and the embrace of $ASST by the equity capital markets.

I'm not gonna run bitcoin core on anything ever

I’m not gonna run Bitcoin Core on anything, ever !

AtlasPool node policy update ⚡ Over the coming days, we're migrating our mining nodes to Bitcoin Knots. Knots uses stricter mempool relay policies than Bitcoin Core defaults, including a smaller OP_RETURN limit (42 bytes vs Core's ~80 bytes in 29.x or much higher in 30.x) and rejection of bare multisig. Our nodes will relay and mine accordingly. We're also shortening mempool retention from 14 to 3 days. Transactions that haven't confirmed in three days aren't bidding competitively, so reclaiming that memory makes our nodes more responsive. For our miners: Nothing to do on your end. Each node will restart briefly during the rollout. Your miner will reconnect automatically within seconds. No configuration changes needed. This isn't a statement about consensus. We don't decide what is a valid Bitcoin transaction — the network does. This is only about what our nodes choose to relay and what we include in the block templates we build. Different node operators make different choices, and that's how the policy market is supposed to work. If you mine with us and your transactions are getting confirmed elsewhere, that's fine. They're still valid Bitcoin. We're simply choosing which transactions we want to spend our blockspace on. AtlasPool is a small solo pool, and operating it is how we deepen our understanding of how Bitcoin works at the node level. Our policy will continue evolving as we learn more, and we'll communicate clearly when it does. Constructive feedback is always welcome.