I think the extra fees incurred, sure, exist, but it doesn't make sense that the difference would be significant, persistently. Why would a miner not just mine txs that are more profitable? It's not exactly hard to directly receive them on any public message channel, if not by direct bitcoin p2p gossip. It's not a meaningful friction.
Compact blocks are afaiu simply a caching mechanism; if you already have all the txs, you can verify a smaller version of the block, which points to txs you already have.
(Bip is 152.)
If you're locally filtering out likely-to-be-mined txs, that doesn't work, at least not as well.
provoost (nprofile…jn0c) was explaining this on his podcast, I don't usually think about these things ... but it's an illustration of the general point, that a "my preference" kind of mempool is just damaging what the purpose of a mempool even is. Imo.
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2025-05-12 16:46:49
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