Replying to Monkey Pox Denier

Like in email. Your mail server probably doesn't accept mails with an attachment of 1 Terrabyte.

Although the network and protocolls(tcp/ip, mail) support them.

There may be mailservers accepting any sized mail and even forward them, but why should you accept these obvious spam/ddos-mails?

There are other, better protocolls for big files, sane persons use ftp or torrent for things like that.

Same with the btc network.
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Danny, the cyber guy 4mo ago

you misunderstand something critical, you STILL get those transactions.

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Super Testnet 4mo ago

you get them if/when a miner mines them

but (1) you *didn't* propagate them to miners (2) you *did* reduce that miner's block propagation speed

those are two benefits you lose by opting for Bitcoin Core's mempool software

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Baz. 4mo ago

I agree with you two points above. But, unfortunately, it's is those miners with stricter filters who are disadvantaged by reduced block propagation speed 😓

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GermanHodl 4mo ago

That's a different problem altogether. Which you won't fix by bending over. Once Knots and better tools for decentralized block templates are the norm it will change.

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Monkey Pox Denier 4mo ago

Then why set the filter to 100k by default? Why filter at all? Why not permit up to 500MB or even no limit at all?

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Danny, the cyber guy 4mo ago

Because the block size. We don't want large blocks, that was a debate a long time ago, and we agreed that large blocks have more downsides than small blocks.

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Monkey Pox Denier 4mo ago

You just reject them and don't store them in your mempool, not filling up your hd and providing free storage for that spam.

Like on your mailserver.