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The "What is Money?" Show

Core vs Knots — Is Bitcoin Being SABOTAGED from Within? w/ Justin Bechler

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

Bitcoin, Breedlove, What Is Money, Investing, Rabbit Hole, Cryptocurrency, Money, Finance, Education, Robert Breedlove, History

4.8710 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 158 minutes

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Summary

Justin Bechler joins the show to discuss the heated Core vs Knots debate, whether Bitcoin has drifted away from Satoshi’s original purpose, the importance of decentralization, spam prevention, OP_Return, and whether Core developers are unintentionally (or intentionally) compromising Bitcoin. They break down who decides what spam is, BRICS vs NATO adoption, 6102 attacks, and whether Bitcoin is truly inevitable. Justin Bechler is a Bitcoin advocate focused on the Core vs Knots debate.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Bitcoin core has got us on a path that's very, very dangerous. And I keep asking, what problem

0:06.9

does increasing the op return limit by 1,250 times solve? Like, I keep landing on the same

0:13.2

conclusion. Like, the market is sorting it out. What am I missing? Why do I not feel that existential

0:17.0

concern? But that, but the concern is, is that then we lose the nodes and then lose decentralization.

0:22.1

Yes. Okay. So it's not the specifics around what's on there. It's what are the implications of having

0:27.6

garbage on there. Bricks adopts Bitcoin. Bricks wins. Learn Russian. It checks all the boxes for them,

0:34.6

man. So I don't know why they haven't. They're already settling energy contracts in Bitcoin.

0:40.1

So central bankers are notorious for funding the both sides of big wars.

0:44.7

Why not this one?

0:45.9

Good question.

0:47.4

So I see a lot of drama, a lot of politicking, harsh language.

0:51.7

But I think in the end of the day, the incentives are just going to win out.

1:04.3

Mr. Beckler, welcome to the show.

1:06.7

Pleasure.

1:07.8

So we're going to do something different today and have you start with this monologue that

1:11.4

you prepared, which I'm not sure what it's about, but excited to hear.

1:14.9

Yeah, me too, man.

1:16.0

Yeah, I started putting my thoughts down in my head and trying to get them together for this

1:21.2

discussion and started putting them on paper and thought maybe I could just kind of post these ideas and

1:32.5

and we could go from there.

1:34.2

Sounds good.

1:35.5

So I have two basic fundamental truths that I base all of my ideas about Bitcoin that I found that I can't get away from those.

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