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@ Free Thinker
2025-05-25 09:40:39
> The argument that filters do nothing because determined spammers can just go direct to miners (and pay much more) is nonsense.
No, it's not. You can just download a libre relay and send anything to a mining pool like MARA pool. "Spammers" pay a premium to MARA, for as long as other mining pools choose to censor their transactions. If enough revenue is generated by those "spammers", I'd expect more pools to start relaxing their mempool policies. Absolutely no transaction has ever been censored because of the way this network works.
In short, it's not your mempool policy that makes the difference, it's Foundry's, Antpool's, ViaBTC, F2Pool etc.
> If that is the case why do they want to remove the filters?
Because 1) it does make it more comfortable for people with these transactions to be part of the network and 2) it makes your transaction fee calculation more accurate.