thats an easy route but after some experimenting people realized you don’t even need that. Nodes will connect to nodes that will relay txs they want to relay.
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If Mara is the easy route are you implying going around the filters is the harder route? Which is it? do filters do nothing? Or do they make it harder?
I don’t think you will find your answers here. The people responding are not giving a complete picture. Hence why you continue having so many questions.