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How would someone get around the standardness policy currently for OP_RETURN size?

120 sats \ 8 replies \ @Murch 4 May

Some Bitcoin node implementations such as Libre Relay have less strict mempool policies and relay transactions that would be considered non-standard by Bitcoin Core. Some mining pools use similar mempool policies and additionally accept direct submissions out-of-band.

As transactions with multiple OP_RETURN outputs or larger OP_RETURN outputs are permitted by the consensus rules, blocks that include these non-standard transactions are accepted by all nodes.

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Also important to mention: Libre Relay automatically peers with other Libre Relay nodes. So even with only a small minority of Libre Relay nodes, transactions still propagate reliably.

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So in other words... attempts to 'filter' transactions successfully by running a client with 'stricter' mempool policy than core... is pretty much hopeless?
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31 sats \ 3 replies \ @Murch 4 May

It takes only about 10% of nodes to somewhat reliably propagate a transaction. Even fewer are enough if they preferentially peer like Libre Relay does (TIL!). So, yes, it’s not effective.

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You learned that today? Sheesh.

My first full-rbf fork of Bitcoin Core with preferential peering was released in 2014.

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43 sats \ 0 replies \ @j7hB75 5 May

lol so humble

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Murch 6 May

I may have known that before and forgotten about it, but yeah

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Censorship, stifling information, is always more difficult than spreading it.

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Sounds like libre is a problem. Who's behind libre? Surprise, surprise: Peter Todd. It's death by a thousand cuts and Peter is holding the knife.

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