I don't know if you realize you are strawmanning my position but you might want to read more closely.
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I read it all lol.. 'just your mempool, bro' is the gist of it, right? That is true.. until everyone runs the same filter and suddenly it’s consensus by ghost. Not a fork, just magically emergent orthodoxy. We’ve seen this movie veryyyy recently too. Spoiler: it ends with 4MB blocks and devs saying 'we didn’t do anything'.
Guy, this is already old. The only way to "fix" this is to have miners filter transactions which everyone seems to call "Censorship!"
It IS just your mempool bro, and if you want to dictate what other people can do with their computers let me know when your CCP application clears.
Funny how 'just your mempool' always ends up being 'just everyone's filter' once da VC-funded nodes push it. It’s a real shame.. Bitcoin maxis warned us, but y’all replaced verification with vibes and called it freedom. I feel for the newbie node runners who now gotta deal with 83-byte standards, 4MB 'not-a-blocksize' blocks, and 1TB of dev gaslighting.