Bitcoin Knots developer Luke Dashjr told a backer of his breakaway Bitcoin fork to "get a real computer" after a new rule forced the user's Raspberry Pi node to resync.
linkCritics quickly pounced on the reply. For months, the fork's camp argued that cheap hardware must be able to run a full node.
What the 45-Day Rule Means for the Bitcoin ForkThe fork left the main network in August and switched its mining algorithm to BLAKE2b on September 1. Since then, it has drawn almost no hashrate and no major exchange listing.
This week, Dashjr declared a new soft fork active on that chain. His pull request on Bitcoin Knots, the node software he maintains, locks newly mined coins for about 45 days instead of the usual 100 blocks.
According to Dashjr, the goal is to punish pool operators who mine without checking transactions. In his words, miners who fail to do the job should not get paid.
However, the upgrade backfired for at least one node runner. The user said it triggered an initial block download (IBD), meaning a full resync of the chain. He added that the 45-day window would close before his Raspberry Pi caught up.