This already happens by fee prioritization. New nodes are not ranked solely by reputation/success rate but by cost.
And many nodes only keep forwarding histories for a few hours. They go stale very fast.
semisol
npub122…cgrkj
2026-07-17 18:36:12 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…m3f6
Author Public Key
npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkjPublished at
2026-07-17 18:36:12 UTCEvent JSON
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