Why does Core have to make it hard for node runners to revert the change, by removing settings that would give them that ability? Should a whole new version be needed, when the settings could have been retained?
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because the setting has 0 effect on anything
This seems like a problem for Bitcoin in general
That's beside the point, and arguable.
But I appreciate the respectful back and forth.
If it has zero effect, but is this important to so many Bitcoiners, why take it away and lose so much trust?
Wow 🤣 you're either lying or very, very gullible.
its true, 99.999% of the nodes filter <1sat/vb yet blocks are filled with them.
it's a stupid slider because most tx's are 160-240vbytes so there's plenty of smaller units.
When talking to another bitcoin dev about this, i suggested a >0 relay fee setting, since 0 is a DoS vector and 1sat/vb is arbitrary. not sure what other bitcoin devs think about this though.
They want features of the network that node runners wouldn’t opt into. So they are trying to force nodes by setting unfavorable defaults without the ability to change.