On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 11:52:02AM -0600, Chris Guida wrote: > > Anyway, forcing users to relay transactions they consider abusive if they > want to relay any transactions at all does not seem in keeping with > bitcoin's ethos, not to mention that it obviously would never work. >
Once a transaction is in a block, you need to relay the transaction if you want to relay a block. You cannot pick and choose which parts of a block you like and which parts are "abusive". This is what it means for something to be a consensus system. The purpose of the mempool is to approximate the contents of blocks, both to help individual node operators (who would otherwise get large quantities of "surprise transactions" with every block) and to help the network (which would otherwise have poor propagation properties). Any sort of filtering beyond that done by miners is contrary to this purpose of the mempool. This is a technical fact. It has nothing to do with "bitcoin's ethos", except its ethos as a consensus system, which directly contradicts your point. -- Andrew Poelstra Director, Blockstream Research Email: apoelstra at wpsoftware.net Web: https://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew The sun is always shining in space -Justin Lewis-Webster -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Bitcoin Development Mailing List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bitcoindev/aNXRSd7ygh6NqE1V%40mail.wpsoftware.net.
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