Stormers didn't field their best team today either, a solid win in the books.

Actually I think that would be pretty cool. Probably also not too crazy of an effort, since it is well specced.

Wow, great recruitment effort!

> Conservative and well reviewed. That is Core to be frank. Should it ideally reimplement consensus, or use core's engine?

There is a distinction and it indeed gets a bit fuzzy. I.e. outputs bigger than 64?bytes (iirc) require extra allocations when writing to disk, but obviously that's no argument for prohibiting other types. A weaker reason with stronger (lol!) assumptions about its usage is that it should be theoretically spendable unless marked as such. Some script pubkeys might not be, which is a reason to only allow "types" that at least formally are.

Both full rbf and sub sat fee txs made it through what could well be called fully deployed filters. The op_return filter specifically created a perverse incentive that led to counterparty, omni, and stamps embedding data in outputs, which is strictly worse than if they could have used op_return instead. The rule should have been relaxed a decade ago in my opinion.

Mmh, who might have written that? 🤔😄

Knots is deploying policy rules to filter transactions that are widely used and broadcast. That is a radical take off from existing practice. Filters do something if miners use them, if not, we have two good examples now that they are virtually useless at prohibiting transactions from reaching miners, or communicating to miners that they should not include them in blockd.

I'd say the exact opposite is true. Not wanting to implement the filter strategy relies on observations, accounts for human action, and takes the adversarial nazure of an open network into account. The filter strategy is mostly fueled by a mass call to policing action, an entirely moralistic argument, embedded in "if they would just" thinking.

Changes to bitcoin core

I've seen this argument based on human action many times. I don't get it. A policy rule is only effective if everybody applies it. How does that account for human action? On the contrary it seems like a centrally planned and executed policing action. A keynesian argument in my book.

There is no resolution mechanism for the relay policy dispute. My hunch is this fight will persist for a long time. It is likely in my view that the share of knots nodes running on the network will keep growing as a result.

Running bitaxe+sv2translator+sv2pool+sv2template provider+mining interface+bitcoin-node v30rc1.