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Hi there - cool to see this being worked on. Just wanted to let you know that changing the package id has quite a few ramifications, and wanted to let you know the pros and cons.

If you were to leave it as bitcoin, it would be recognized as a dependency for the rest of the Bitcoin stack (including electrs, mempool, lightning, etc), a feature many users will obviously want. This does mean however, that the knots package would replace Bitcoin Core for any user installing it.

If you choose to change it, as it seems you have begun to do, then it will not be recognized by the rest of the Bitcoin stack, but could be run as a second node in addition to Core. If you want to go this route, you'll need to change that id everywhere, such as in the config, which currently still reflects bitcoin as the id.

We may need to have some sort of middleware, like Bitcoin Proxy, that can handle the stack above while pointing to the node of choice by the user. Open to ideas on how to make a better UX here.