According to @adam3us, Bitcoin transaction relay filters "don’t work," and conflating the mempool with the peer-to-peer network misstates the issue, underscoring limits of node-level censorship (source: Adam Back on X, Sep 2, 2025). According to @adam3us, the dispute centers on relay versus mempool semantics, with the takeaway that the debate is about local policy rather than consensus changes, which is consistent with Bitcoin Core’s distinction between policy and consensus (source: Adam Back on X; Bitcoin Core policy documentation). According to Bitcoin Core documentation, relay and mempool behavior are governed by local policy and feerate thresholds, meaning nodes decide which transactions to forward and keep, which in turn shapes short-term fee floors and confirmation times when demand spikes (source: Bitcoin Core policy documentation; BIP-133 feefilter). According to BIP-133, nodes advertise minimum feerates for relay, influencing which transactions propagate promptly, so traders should track fee rates, mempool backlog, and miner revenue sensitivity during relay-policy debates highlighted by @adam3us (source: BIP-133; Adam Back on X).