Replying to Avatar rieger_san

Wow, what a crazy madness 😂😂😂

Call valid transactions “spam” and not propagating these to other nodes is a form of censorship.

Being crazy like nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze and removing them from the mining template is definitely a form of censorship.

On top of that providing a template with the “spam” and then charging a fee for it while others don’t have a free is a form of steering people to behave in a way some people think is “the proper way”

You're absolutely wrong. There's no censorship in mempool policy. There are plenty of consensus valid transactions that your node doesn't relay out-of-the-box* that a miner can include in a block.

* It's important to point out that "Consensus valid transactions" aren't always in the best interest of individual nodes and having a mechanism to discourage such behavior is necessary.

My favorite example is the 2013 White Paper TX which uses bare multi-sig outputs to encode the Bitcoin white paper. (Coincidentally OCEAN's predecessor Eligius mined it). https://mempool.space/tx/54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c95aa583d07ebe84dde3b7dd4a78f4e4186e713

Go try and relay that same tx on the P2P network today 🤷 you can't, it won't go anywhere because of size and datacarrier rules in modern versions of Bitcoin so most nodes won't forward it on, but you can still go out of band (i.e. like MARAs tx accelerator) -- where's the censorship ?

See? Go back to school 😤

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