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Knots reduces the negative impact of spam on node runners by treating spam as objectively different from regular txs

Core treats spam identically to regular txs, for subjective reasons (some of its devs think spam is good)

Be objective. Consider Knots.

https://supertestnet.github.io/spam_tester/

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vnprc 2mo ago 💬 3

Spam is subjective

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Tauri 2mo ago

If you consider the spammer’s opinion as objective, then sure it’s subjective.

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Super Testnet 2mo ago 💬 1

Humans wrote bitcoin. The only objective things a bitcoin node knows are what its devs and users tell it.

A Core node doesn't know what a valid tx is, except it does because a human told it via the consensus rules

A Knots node doesn't know what a spam tx is, except it does because a human told it via the mempool policy

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Baerson 2mo ago

CSAM and monkey jpegs are not subject to be ibterpreted as anything but spam (or worse) when talking about Bitcoin's function - money.