Lightning_buck on Nostr: Excluding transactions, which will end up being mined anyway, from a nodes mempool is ...
Excluding transactions, which will end up being mined anyway, from a nodes mempool is irrational behaviour. It leads to slower block validation and worse fee estimation, while offering no benefit to the node runner. Why should core waste resources to enable irrational behaviour.
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2025-04-28 12:11:45Event JSON
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