No, we’re the only ones with a coherent argument, and aren’t just virtue signaling for maxi popularity points like you.

If you guys are going to Knots… no, Core users don’t need to justify anything to you.

You guys are (ironically) spamming the Bitcoin Core GitHub with activism and ad hominems.

Buddy, I’ve already listens to Mechanic, Luke, Guy Swann, Chris Guida, and others.

Pro-filter Bitcoiners simply have bad arguments. It fundamentally comes down to maxi virtue signaling: a constant struggle to prove you’re “pure” and hate shitcoins.

There’s a reason why the majority of Core devs- the people who actually work with the code and help shape it, not just a bunch of podcasters and influencers- support removing the filters. It doesn’t make sense to keep or expand them.

Bitcoin doesn’t work because of morals or ideology, it works because of game theory and tradeoffs.

No, you’re missing the point.

As filtering becomes increasingly common, more and more transactions will go out of band.

So what do mining pools do? They’ll invest in building private transaction rails, and it becomes commoditized over time, so prices will plummet, long term. So there’s no deterrent to what you consider “spam.”

And now the public mempool is dead, fee estimation is basically impossible, and people submit their transactions (even financial-only transactions) directly to miners instead of using the mempool.

That’s not the point. Conditions today are not necessarily how they will always be.

Compare the tradeoffs of each implementation.

It eventually converges to the same as the mempool . OOB infrastructure will be rapidly commoditized the more common filtering becomes.

So, not a deterrent to “spam.”

I assume you’re referring to network level dust filters. Not wallet level.

Honestly, no. If they pay a competitive fee, they’ll be included in a block.

Filtering doesn’t do anything, whatsoever. Those transactions still are mined into the blockchain.