What is the best node to run at the moment?

[Jet Cash]

I've had to withdraw from the Internet for many months whilst I made some lifestyle changes. I still have a couple of nodes that i update, However, recent problems have led me to believe that I should start a new node, but which one? I've read that the current is deprecated due to potential spam issues. I had though of using knots, but I gather that there may be some issues with that.  I want to run the node to support the Bitcoin concept that I knew and loved a few years ago, and also to receive payments for domain name sales. I need to replace the archaic Swift system based on the declining US Dollar. So what do you guys recommend - how good is the current Core for accepting international payments?

[Mia Chloe]

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Well If your goal is actually to support Bitcoin as designed and also to accept international payments reliably, Bitcoin Core (current release) is still the safest, most compatible, and least controversial choice and  It is not deprecated in my opinion. I know there are countless debates about knots and core but every real OG will always go with Core.

Forget the arguments people make personally I see knots as too controversial for my liking plus if I had one last argument about that topic I'll say Satoshi left us with core so I'll go with core.

[ABCbits]

I had though of using knots, but I gather that there may be some issues with that.

Yeah. Have you seen https://blog.lopp.net/knot-a-serious-project/, only section "Luke's Security Practices"?

So what do you guys recommend - how good is the current Core for accepting international payments?

Bitcoin Core is still most popular option today. But if you need some automation and process many payment everyday, you may also want to install payment processor (such as OpenNode or BTCPay).

[LoyceV]

Bitcoin Core still works totally fine, and I haven't tried Knots. But if you're still have a nomadic lifestyle without permanent internet, Electrum is much easier. I run my public Electrum server using Fulcrum on top of Bitcoin Core.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Some full node guides with a second one for Electrum and Tor. Honestly I have never tried this but it can be helpful for your need.
[GUIDE] The simplest Full Node guide ever.
[Guide] FULL NODE OpenSUSE 15.3: bitcoind + electrs + c-lightning + RTL
The road to node: Bitcoin Core extensions, Electrum personal server.

[Xxmodded]

I've had to withdraw from the Internet for many months whilst I made some lifestyle changes. I still have a couple of nodes that i update, However, recent problems have led me to believe that I should start a new node, but which one? I've read that the current is deprecated due to potential spam issues. I had though of using knots, but I gather that there may be some issues with that.  I want to run the node to support the Bitcoin concept that I knew and loved a few years ago, and also to receive payments for domain name sales. I need to replace the archaic Swift system based on the declining US Dollar. So what do you guys recommend - how good is the current Core for accepting international payments?

Core is still the safe the spam/deprecated talk is mostly noise it works just fine and stays in consensus. knots is cool if you like tinkering but not needed for just running a solid node and taking payments. for domains and international payments Core does the job clean spin it up keep it updated and you all good to go

[nc50lc]

I've read that the current is deprecated due to potential spam issues.

Which "current" one, Bitcoin Core?
Because the only recently deprecated stuff regarding it is its legacy bdb wallet.dat file which can't be loaded to the latest versions w/o migrating it first (v30.0+)
As far as deprecation is concerned, no Bitcoin client is being deprecated.

If you've read it from a political-related topic, you'll only get filtered arguments from each side's perspective.
So DYOR about it (keep it neutral when reading those topics)... it's good that you've asked here BTW.