Genuine question that I’ve heard asked but never answered:
While I’m all for financial-only transactions — and running whatever mempool policy you want — doesn’t censoring consensus-valid transactions encourage the degens to send and pay miners directly through back channels?
How does my wallet do fee estimation properly if it can’t see the real cost of what it takes to get into the next block? You’d need third party apis from the top 10 mining pools to get an actual estimate.
To my understanding this would be troublesome for wallets and lightning nodes, but if I’m misunderstanding something I’d love to be corrected.
Cheers
marcan0 / Pete Marcano
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2025-04-30 13:36:40
in reply to nevent1q…cv83
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