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Technically filters may not work as we all wished but socially they are working.

Certainly all this is raising eyebrows and awareness to some of the problems.

We all need to remain vigilant and small things like grandstanding on top of OP_RETURN filter may not yield concrete impact on the technical and working layers of the network but does have social impact and steers discussions towards ongoing problems even to the attention of those less aware about of all this and now catching up and becoming more interested in the subject.

Thing that all this net positive.
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Judge Hardcase 8mo ago

The biggest positive just might be the raising of awareness of the underlying need for network software diversification.

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u7xo 8mo ago

So to as long consensus is not broken and mempool doesn't get a bit too weird due to how many diff nodes running different mempool policy to the point making things harder for everyone in the end.

What is more important here is that CORE devs or any dev should not hold too much influence and arbitrary enforcement of what should or should not be done.

Thinks like node runners wanting to cast a vote against all this spam is important politically even if they don't have strong immediate effect at technical level.

Keeping everyone in check is important for Bitcoin's anti-fragile nature specially when bigger opponents arise to attack bitcoin.

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Arthur Morgan 8mo ago

Core devs can't force you to run their software though. The vote is what software you run. Even with the op return filter in place, spam will still end up in blocks without even going via the mempool, which is worse apparently. So I don't really understand the fuss.