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Ilya Nikokoshev
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I don't have much knowledge in either knots or Hopf bialgebras, but I think one can answer part of your question (the one asked as title) anyway.

First, Wikipedia says it is still not known whether finite type invariants separate knots (and I think a discovery of an answer to this question would make pretty big news anyway).

It matters whether they do or not if you want to learn about all points of $V$. However, either way you can be certain that the points of $V$ (which I'll denote by $\mathop{\text{Spec}} V$) can be added or subtracted at will. In other words, you can be certain that there is a point corresponding to $[\text{unknot}]+2\cdot[\text{trefoil}]$ or to $-[\text{trefoil}]$. This is implied when you say that those form Hopf bialgebra.

So, for any given knot $K$ there exists an element of $\mathop{\text{Spec}} V$ that is negative of invariants of knot $K$, but this observation is rather trivial.

Thus I think one shouldn't ask what is asked in the title, but rather more general question that I emphasized.

Ilya Nikokoshev
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