Possible, but trying to get the genie back in the bottle isn't something we want to rely on with future changes. The threshold for letting it out in the first place needs to be higher than a few salaried devs punching a clock having the keys just because they usurped a given GitHub repo.

We can do a little experiment - though it will take some time to code up - where we dump mempool, recalculate without segwit discount, and see what happens to transaction ordering. If there is more money in it for miners, especially with current fee regime, then I don't see any reason why they wouldn't want to patch.

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Undeprecate datacarrier PR rationale - @schmidty

Scoresby

But the centralized distribution of Core normalized it, where it wasn't before. Miners being rational market actors had the market rules changed on them by a politburo, one that leads the auto-downloaders.

Can't on the one hand worry about chaos by multiple distributions while ignoring the chaos caused by a universal one.