What happened
Bitcoin Knots has, for years, been the second serious full-node implementation keeping Bitcoin Core honest. With the RDTS (BIP-110) network upgrade, Knots' maintainer chose to fold RDTS enforcement into every future release — and declined to continue maintaining a non-RDTS branch.
That leaves Bitcoin, in practice, with one actively maintained node implementation. One client, one roadmap, one point of failure for the entire network's software diversity.
What this is
Bitcoin Untangled is a continuation of Bitcoin Knots, forked from the last non-RDTS release, tracking Bitcoin Core's ongoing development independently — without the RDTS branch folded in.
Not a rejection of RDTS on principle. A refusal to let node-implementation diversity quietly disappear because one maintainer changed course.
Get involved
- Run the node — download the latest build
- Review the code — the repo is open, read it
- Downloadable binaries
View the repository →
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