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Have to disagree:

- Bitcoin P2P network is a very important piece of bitcoin decentralisation, underappreciated and undervalued. We must protect it as much as possible (and improve it making it more resilient, silent, etc...)
- There's no security budget problem. Bitcoin owners must and will protect the network. And if they don't, it's because they don't really understand it and bitcoin has failed.

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vnprc · 55w
Transaction relay is a secondary concern to bitcoin nodes. The primary concern is relaying and validating blocks. Bolting on transaction relay to a block-first node network is an antipattern. This is apparent when you consider the negative externalities of transaction relay. Namely: - the many DOS r...