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120 sats \ 8 replies \ @Murch 4 May \ parent \ on: Quick questions about OP_RETURN? Quick answers here. bitcoin
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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127 sats \ 6 replies \ @petertodd 4 May
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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42 sats \ 5 replies \ @028559d218 4 May
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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41 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 4 May
Censorship, stifling information, is always more difficult than spreading it.
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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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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @petertodd 5 May
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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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jgbtc 8 May
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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