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oomahq / Unhosted Marcellus
npub100m…fyy5
2023-03-21 10:41:23
in reply to nevent1q…sryg

oomahq on Nostr: There is no such thing as an "accurate fee estimation" as each node runner has full ...

There is no such thing as an "accurate fee estimation" as each node runner has full control over mempool policy, so each mempool can be different (and actually is in practice).

My incentive as a bitcoin user is to pay less fees when I transact, not more. And as a node runner my incentive is to prevent my node from relaying spam* so that the blockchain doesn't bloat, and operating the node doesn't become more expensive than necessary, leading to more pruned nodes and centralization.

*Each node runner decides what he considers spam, it follows from the fact that he controls mempool policy.
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