0 sats \ 6 replies \ @energycurrency 27 May 2023 \ parent \ on: Significant Shift in Pool Share Distribution on Mempool: Is it Accurate? bitcoin
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In the end it's up to the miners to decide if they want to optimize for highest fees all the time or take payment for including transactions via some out of band channel. See for example the zero fee taproot wizards transaction: https://mempool.space/tx/0301e0480b374b32851a9462db29dc19fe830a7f7d7a88b81612b9d42099c0ae
There are several other zero fee transactions way before "inscriptions" was invented.
Also, as Odell tries to communicate, there is not just one mempool. Every node has one, and they will be slightly different while transactions are communicated, hence no enforceable dust limit. Fee rates fluctuate over time.
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Okay, a very low minimum fee could be a requirement added by a soft fork.
But the actual minimum set by the fluctuating fee market cannot be defined with precision that would enable a block to fail validation.
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It's mempool policy, not a consensus rule
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Yeah they aren't
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