If mempool consistency across the network is all that is important, why allow any configuration of mempool relay policies at all? On Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 12:47:28 PM UTC-6 Greg Maxwell wrote: > This appears to substantially misunderstands the purpose of the mempool > broadly in the network-- it's purpose is to model what will get mined. If > you're not doing that you might as well set blocks only. > Significant discrepancies are harmful to the system and promote > centralization and fail to achieve a useful purpose in any case. What > marginal benefits might be provided do not justify building and deploying > the technological infrastructure for massive censorship. > > If you think this is important, I advise you to select another > cryptocurrency which is compatible with such authoritarian leanings. -- > though I am unsure if any exist since it is such a transparently pointless > direction. > > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM Aiden McClelland wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to share for discussion a draft BIP to allow for a modular >> mempool/relay policy: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1985 >> >> I think it could potentially reduce conflict within the community around >> relay policy, as an alternative to running lots of different node >> implementations/forks when there are disagreements. >> >> I am working on a reference implementation using Bellard's QuickJS, but >> it has been almost a decade since I've written C++, so it's slow going and >> I'm sure doesn't follow best-practices. Once it's working, it can be >> cleaned up. >> >> Thanks, >> Aiden McClelland >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Bitcoin Development Mailing List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to bitcoindev+...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bitcoindev/cbdab6fa-93bc-44c9-80f0-6c68c6554f56n%40googlegroups.com >> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Bitcoin Development Mailing List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bitcoindev+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bitcoindev/de4dae19-86f4-4d7a-a895-b48664babbfcn%40googlegroups.com.