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Picture this scenario: Core and Knots chose not to relay large op_returns. Meanwhile, the biggest KYC miners controlling around 90% of hash rate and don't gf about reputation put up an API for pricing and direct submission of transactions - fast and centralized. They mine the transactions into blocks and send them out to core and knots. Core and knots, not seeing a complete mempool, now have broken pricing, and wallets start connecting to the miners' API for better UX, because they're fast (centralized) and have more accurate market pricing of sats/vb.
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DRE 3mo ago

The fee estimation is insufficient to take on the known and unknown risks imo.

This is only important if you need to get in the next block. Anyone can go on mempool.space to verify their fee estimation is in the ballpark. It really is a non issue

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Hazey 3mo ago

Price signals is everything to a market. I am strongly opposed to some centralized service that is capable of more accurate pricing than the network itself can provide.