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I recommend listening to the full podcast, because my interpretation of his opinion is not necessarily accurate. That said, he *seems* to think that a given node is supposed to relay transactions to its peers not for *its peers'* benefit but only for *its own* benefit, namely, so that blocks will get to it faster, since its peers won't have to spend as much time downloading transactions they already have.

I am glad that he seemed to concede that *if* a user wanted to run a node "altruistically," e.g. as a public service to help other people's transactions reach miners, then *for such a user* it makes sense to filter some transactions. I think a lot of users run a node for reasons that include such altruistic motives, and I suspect he thinks that's silly.

BitcoinIsFuture 2mo ago

Its BS.

Blocks are created rougly every 10 minutes. What is his benefit to get all transactions of a block in 2 minutes or in 3 or in 4? Is he going to win the lottery?

Or he just like collecting spam and csam.

Lets see my incentives of running a Bitocin Knots node.

1. First of all I own Bitcoin and having a full node gives me the security to trust only my node and be able to freely transact. Its highest degree of security.

2. I have read Satoshi Nakamoto white paper and my view of Bitcoin is that its P2P Freedom Money. So I vote with my node what Bitcoin is.

3. Full nodes also secure the Bitcoin network so in addition to my own benefits I do altruistical work too.

4. I help with Bitcoin decentralization

5. All incentives allign. I help the network by helping myself.

I have no incentive to relay spam or csam.

I have no incetive some shitcoiners to turn Bitcoin into failed shitcoin like Ethereum, XRP or Cardano.

I have no incentive of Bitcoin getting more centralized. It will get if nodes start to require huge resources.

I have no incentive Bitcoin to die and to continue with fiat inflation theft and central banks financial slavery.

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