This is knots propaganda that is technically false. door is already open: there is no consensus limit on op_return and it’s trivial to route around filtering nodes.
It’s just not done because there are cheaper ways to store large images (inscriptions), which there are already is massive abuse of.
For reasons why it was done, this post by sipa explains it clearly https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/127903
If the filters don't do anything then why remove them?
If on the other hand it is like gmail filters where some spam gets through but removing them would open the flood gates (which I think is the case) then we really don't want them removed.
What is the advantage of no filters?
sipa answers this in the post
Right away, this is just untrue:
"However, as developers and community of node runners, we also do not really get to decide what people use the chain for"
We do not have to relay & facilitate transactions that we oppose.
The fact that some spam gets through my email filters is not a reason to remove all filters.
if you read the post it explains that you still relay it regardless of what you set for that setting. that's why its deprecated, because its misleading.
We only relay spam if it gets into a block. Making it harder for bullshit to get into a block reduces the amount of bullshit people will create.
Ocean & Datum are already increasing miner revenue (because major pool operators are clearly corrupt) while allowing individual miners to filter garbage too. The truth is that all the spam revenue was already flowing to a small few & being kept from small mining participants.
Datum does more to decentralize mining than any sort of filter removal possibly could.
The arguments for filter removal just make no sense. It truly seems like there is some hidden motivation.
Wake me up when this fantasy land is a reality and then i will agree with you
The filters work perfectly at their main job: keeping spam out of your mempool
When widely adopted they also delay the propagation of spam-filled blocks, which provides a nice monetary incentive for miners to ignore spam: ignoring spam = fewer blocks orphaned = higher income
there wouldn't be any delay when relaying via preferrential peering or private mempools. it only takes a few nodes to get around the thousands of knots nodes. come on.
Tell that to Mara Pool and CKPool. They noticed that their blocks were getting orphaned more often when they ignored the subsat tx filters, and reimplemented them. The higher the percentage of Knots runners, the higher the likelihood this plays out again, but for inscriptions and op_returns
I kept the receipts. CKPool post on the topic: https://x.com/ckpooldev/status/1957235824451559746
Mara Pool post on the topic: https://x.com/PortlandHODL/status/1958520763083825640
You said they "noticed their blocks were getting orphaned"
But neither of those two links said their blocks were getting orphaned. They just said they were taking steps to prevent the risk of orphaning
Good point, I missed that
these seem specifically about v0.1sat/vB transactions? I don't see how a large op_return that paid huge feeds is related to that.
My hope is that the same fear of stale blocks induces miners to not mine large op_return txs
To make that fear more grounded, I hope more people filter such txs
No idea. Have been mostly on stratum side of the house. But with slipstream, I imagine this would pose a similar risk so not sure why we ignore sub 1sat/vbyte.
i think its a lazy argument considering it only focuses on one type of non-standard tx
nostr:note1h9es3yqp44a2na027v7sqqnrdy5e08g3dfljgz3txh0j8dcphqjs3j5aqc
Whack a mole!
Looks like its also wrong
You've gone from "trivial to route around" to preferential peering and private mempools. Keep it up and you'll eventually get to "I was wrong, filters do work".
If we spread Datum & encourage people to join Ocean or to create more pools like Ocean then the malicious Ant-main majority hold on mining will once again be broken.
Why facilitate spam instead & work to funnel more revenue to the same corrupt shits that have been trying to control bitcoin for a decade?
is the plan to censor inscription spends as well using this method?
it seems if this could be pulled off then bitcoin would no longer be censorship resistant, it would be whatever the miners agree upon censoring via relay policy?
That's not an argument.
During the height of the spam craze people saw that giant spam txns with huge fees were not being distributed to pool participants as they should have been.
Ocean showed that even very early on participants were earning more in spite of filters.
Datum allows miners to process whatever txns they want. So it dramatically decentralizes mining & takes power away from pool operators.
And it does appear to be the case that legacy pools are corrupt (which really shouldn't be a surprise since more than half of them are Ant-main anyway).
There is no point in arguing with them.
These are people are hypocrites. Removing OP_return limit will not stop slipstream.
People can and will still go directly to miners to put whatever they want in their blocks.
It will just allow Tom, Dick and Harry to spam more, especially now they want to reduce the min limit to 0.1 sat/vB.
