Blocked peers don't tell me the sat/vbyte of my competition in other mempools.
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Yeah, and neither does a self run node... Only well connected nodes would like Mempool.space or whatever. Your personal node never had the full picture and never will.
Pictures of my vacation aren't as cool as being there so I should use a flip phone camera instead of my DSLR.
The Mona Lisa has damage from its age, so we should let middle schoolers graffiti it.
It is silly to say just because it is never going to be perfect we should intentionally make it worse.
A better analogy would be filtering out photobombers by cutting them out of your family vacation photos or cutting out graffiti that was put ontop of the mona lisa. From YOUR photos. It gives you the picture YOU want to see. If you want to see the graffiti and photobombers to get a "clearer" picture of what is happening YOU can by deactivating the filter. I PERSONALLY edit those annoyances out. Stop pretending to be Bitcoin King and know what's best for other People's computers.
I don't know everything, but I do know enough to be convinced you are confused. I'm not trying to tell you what to do, I'm trying to clear up your confusion so you can make the best decision for you. Remember, I'm not a random internet douche, we've shook hands in person. Once you understand, do what you want. I just want you to make an informed decision and I'm taking time out of my day to try to help you get there.
To use your photo bomber analogy. You are obsessed with what is in the photo on your camera (mempool) but putting every photo bomber on your Olas feed (blockchain). I'm saying by ignoring them on camera you can help make it easier for you to keep them out of your Olas feed.
I can agree that we are both using intense language here. Not discounting the in person(fantastic soap by the way)meeting. I am telling you I am not confused. But I am also saying you aren't confused. We have different moral outlooks.
To use an analogy: A girl walking on the beach finds 1000 starfish have beached themselves. She throws them 1 by 1 back into the ocean. Another person says "you can't save them all why waste your time? What does it matter?" And the girl says "It matters to that one."
I am the little girl.
You are the other person.
It's fine that you think my actions are futile, I do not.