Not true.
"Information wants to be free" - a very old cypherpunk aphorism. Bitcoin's P2P network is gossip, by design - it only needs a few nodes to know about a transaction, and miners are strongly incented to be well connected to find out about txs as early as possible.
A version of bitcoin where it was easy to filter out transactions at the p2p level would be a complete failure in its most important property - censorship resistance.
waxwing /
npub1va…knuu7
2025-05-06 01:10:17
in reply to nevent1q…yf6l
Author Public Key
npub1vadcfln4ugt2h9ruwsuwu5vu5am4xaka7pw6m7axy79aqyhp6u5q9knuu7Published at
2025-05-06 01:10:17Event JSON
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