These are implementations of Bitcoin, each will sync you with the Bitcoin network.
The catch is that each implementation has parameters that can be tweaked all the way up to the boundary of the consensus ruleset.
For these two particular implementations, Core is the reference implementation, think of it like the ‘default’, while Knots is a fork which has altered parameters with the intent of reducing the relay and acceptance of spam/data-intensive transactions.
Both are Bitcoin, however, and will sync you with the Bitcoin blockchain, because both maintain the same set of consensus rules.
To be completely honest, if you have never run a node, you should first look at Bitcoin Core and how to install the latest version, verify the signatures, sync the blockchain, and then run some rpc (terminal) commands and point your wallet to the node to send and receive funds.
Running a node starts there, understanding the nuance of implementations and the significance of which fork you will run is very in-depth.
If you would like more info though I will supply as much as I can in terms of what running different implementations actually means.
supermassive
npub105…aaru0
2025-05-02 14:06:07
in reply to nevent1q…ufqg
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2025-05-02 14:06:07Event JSON
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