Try broadcasting a dust transaction its consensus valid but 99% of the network is going to block it anyway. There are still some old legacy nodes that don't filter dust. Filters work. Dust is proof
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I made a tx like a few months ago with dust, paid 1s per vb and got into the next block. I did this to prove the same fucking point to someone on nostr. Filters don't work. My dust tx proves you wrong.
I would do it again, but I'd rather dig up that tx to show you. I consolidated the dust afterwards because useless UTXOs are no good.
Weird I don't get dust attacked anymore
You don't dust attack a node, you would do it to make a bunch of unspensdable UTXOs which grows the UTXO set and affect the whole network. No one would do that because it's just throwing money away...
Here it is...
100 sats to its own UTXO, 2244sats is a change address.
Paid 156 sats fee.
OK, let's say your right and filters don't stop anything (I remain wildlyskeptical), how about we leave them in just case your wrong. If I'm wrong there's no harm. If your wrong you've just junked up the blockchain with garbage.
They did leave them. Core 30 is not out yet but when it dies come out it will still have all filters. Todd's PR was not merged. Default limit for opreturn will be raised to make it basically unlimited. You can still set your own limit in your bitcoin.conf to whatever you want. Also opreturn is the only filter in question here. All others Policies remain the same by default I believe. Policies and defaults exist for making sure users don't submit unintended transactions. They don't exist to stop anything from being relayed.