drgo on Nostr: Changing default relay policy to match consensus was meant to 1) undercut the fee ...

Changing default relay policy to match consensus was meant to 1) undercut the fee market for out of band transaction submission to the biggest miners (as this was a valid existential threat “someday”) and 2) allow nodes to see the “real” mempool (so to speak, there technically is no such thing) to make estimating fees more reliable (valid but also probably premature too).

IMHO, the only valid discussion points on ripping off the bandaid were ones regarding timing and communication…(the bandaid meaning including op_return size in the criteria for judging whether or not a transaction is “standard” and thus permitting non-specialized nodes to relay the tx).

You’ll note that this move does not invite or condone embedding data on chain; being able to embed data via op_return isn’t guaranteed to even exist in the future. But the reality is removing op_return entirely would be totally possible, guaranteeing any data stored on chain would be non-prunable for all.