The mempool filters broke because of mining centralization which enabled Slipstream. Slipstream bypassed the whole p2p network and benefitted the very miners who were most abusive. Removing the filter was a recognition of this reality. And yes, there's nonsense like Citrea and the idea of one unified mempool which is worth opposing, but it's not the signal here, nor the motivation that pushed it through.
Datum and Stratum v2 are indeed the best weapons we have to defend Bitcoin from centralization of miners. Decentralize the hashrate and maybe we can bring back policy filters that do more good than harm.
BIP-110 OTOH is a bunch of noise that distracts from the real issues, and has been a great way to proliferate false information about how Bitcoin works. My only hope is that when it fails people decide to get around to reading the Blocksize Wars.
As for spam, I assume you've seen that it's still trivial to post vile things in 110 compliant transactions (such as the image of Luke crying). Being expensive doesn't stop it, and if the concern is attacks that make node running immoral or illegal it clearly fails in this regard. The way to fight spam effectively is to have policy filters that work. Which is how Knots was designed from the beginning.
Cykros
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2026-06-25 16:07:57 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…gmy4
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