And, more generally, I didn’t claim that filters don’t work period. Indeed, as long as there is very little revenue to be had from the spam there is some cost to working around them. They’re maybe good for like 0.1 sat/vB in additional cost from effort and whatever. But it’s very very little, and if there starts to be lots of transactions that are non-standard then it will get driven down further (while driving small miners out of business!)

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Oh come on Jimmy. Lots of transactions in general pay too high a fee. With such a small sample size that’s not evidence of anything.

And, again, my point above was about what happens when people *regularly* want to create non-standard transactions. As long as it’s incredibly rare, there’s not a lot of demand and only one or two pools might offer it (indeed, F2Pool and MARA today). The whole start of this drama was because a potentially-large transactor wanted to fill the UTXO set with garbage because they didn’t want to rely on OP_RETURNs. Obviously that changes the calculus here.

Potentially large transactor? Please tell me you’re not referring to Citrea?