OpenTimestamps and Knots/OCEAN

Is OpenTimestamps incompatible with or threatened by the Bitcoin Knots fork of Bitcoin Core and/or the OCEAN mining pool? I’m told this question has come up a few times from investors and potential users of OpenTimestamps, so I thought it would be worth answering in a blog post. This post isn’t going to get into the politics of Bitcoin Knot’s transaction relaying policy, or OCEAN’s transaction…