The idea of “the collective of all mempools” is not a defined entity and can't be queried or observed in its entirety.

There is no way to know whether a transaction is in any mempool, because you can’t reach or query every node in practice or in principle.

Per your question, I don’t believe that would be a link specifically. Can you define what you mean by “THE Mempool”

I only know it as “My Mempool”

So technically no, there is no realistic way for me to share a link of a bitcoin transaction that has been filtered.

Because it was filtered.

I can jump a wall and break a door. What’s your point?

People leveraging the bitcoin protocol to become sovereign have no incentive to relay garbage around to other nodes and store that in their mempool.

That spammers can get around by tricking nodes into accepting spam or going directly to miners is not a reason for them start passing around spam.

Telling noderunners to just get on with the program and relay spam because it may end up in the chain anyway and gaslight them into thinking filters don’t work because they don’t stop every single spam txn is a hard sell and bad strategy.

Rob Hamilton being a spam apologist was also not on my 2025 bingo card

What a year

Way to miss the point lol

Good to know you agree that non wealthy people that can’t outbid the fee of scammers are “doing it wrong”

You can’t escape morality. Bitcoin and everything else humans create are for the purpose of increasing human flourishing, in principle at least. You can’t just look at a piece of code and be blind or obtuse about the purpose of that piece of code or anything else we create for that matter

Those dirty poor people just need to get richer, am I right?

No one is arguing filters prevent people from paying a high fee and handing the jpegs directly to Marathon or any other miner

Try creating a txn with an OP_RETURN greater than 80 bytes and see how far it goes

Nodes have no incentive to store spam in their mempools or to relay it to other nodes

Would a failed spammer want to out themselves tho?

If the filter worked and made it annoying enough for them not to bother going to a miner out of band, then there wouldn’t be a transaction on the blockchain in the first place (which is the point).

Hard to prove how many transactions the filters have kept keep out by making it harder to use though isn’t it?

Call me crazy, but if it’s been filtered, it would have a link because it’s not included in the chain. Am I wrong?

such a tool could be an interesting project to work on

Where?

Podconf approved?

what's your take rob? been out of the loop for a min and could use a quick explainer