It has 0%, ZERO, effect unless 100%, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT, of nodes have the same policy. The only way to guarantee 100% of nodes have the same policy is by CONCENSOUS. otherwise everyone can run knots and the individual that wants a monkey jpeg will run a node that will hold it in their mempool and they will offer enough to a miner to confirm it in the next block. Do you get that?
I do get that, read the other reply about miner incentives and orphan probability
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A miners incentive is howich they are being paid. That's it..that's the only thing that matters to a miner. As it should be.
Exactly. So they can’t afford orphans.
