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jgbtc · 74w
In fact, it's the core devs that are claiming omniscience. They assert that spam transactions will get into blocks "one way or another" but of course they don't know this. Yet another analogy is gun o...
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They mention that miners use private mempools and will include transactions nonetheless as they have incentive of higher fees.(like they do it already, it's not an hypothetical thing)
So running nodes with filters only makes the network more split, and more centralized(miners will tend to run code that give them fatter fees overall). So it does not avoid spam in the blocks.
This is what I understood from their arguments.
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Snotklap · 74w
Yes, spammers can still submit transactions directly to miners through private channels. But this isn’t free... it transforms spam from a low-cost, frictionless broadcast into a high-cost act of collusion. It requires coordination, trust, infrastructure, and, above all, higher fees. Filters work b...