Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Can we penalize peers who relay rejected replacement txs?

From: Matt Whitlock <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 22:00:45 -0400

On Thursday, 9 July 2015, at 6:57 pm, Tom Harding wrote:
> Replace-by-anything can only work if conflicts are relayed, so the
> solution is not to act against the peer.
> 
> Alex Morcos offered a suggestion on IRC -- track recently-rejected
> txid's and don't getdata them.  The idea sounds good to me.

While that's probably a good idea, it wouldn't do much to reduce the load. I am not seeing many repeated transaction hashes among the "rejected replacement" messages in my log.