Core does not care about you unless you’re a miner.
“•predicting what transactions will be mined (for example for fee estimation or fee bumping, but it is also the basis for many DoS protection strategies inside of node software);
•speeding up block propagation for the transactions we expect to be mined. Reduced latency helps prevent large miners from gaining unfair advantages;
•helping miners learn about fee-paying transactions (so they do not need to rely on out-of-band transaction submission schemes that undermine mining decentralization).”
“While we recognize that this view isn’t held universally by all users and developers, it is our sincere belief that it is in the best interest of Bitcoin and its users, and we hope our users agree”
Bitcoin Core development and transaction relay policy was published on June 06, 2025 .
We definitely do not agree.
I will continue to run Knots. And advocate that you do too. If I fail in this endeavor, then so be it. But I will go down fighting.
Core does not care about you. Their intention is quite clear now. Help the miners at all costs. And your node is meaningless.
Link to the full publication below.
bitcoincore.org/en/2025/06/06/…