According to @adam3us, the network policy Schelling point for transaction relaying has shifted, with a tolerant minority now setting a more permissive relay limit through preferential peering, source: @adam3us on X, Sep 14, 2025. This change indicates relay behavior is no longer anchored by the prior default node policy, increasing heterogeneity in propagation across peering clusters that traders must account for in on-chain execution, source: @adam3us on X, Sep 14, 2025. Latency-sensitive strategies should assume uneven mempool visibility and variable relay speeds between clusters and adjust fee models, routing, and timing to manage slippage and arbitrage risk, source: @adam3us on X, Sep 14, 2025. Risk monitoring should include multi-peer propagation checks and cross-cluster mempool sampling to detect relay bottlenecks before submitting time-critical orders, source: @adam3us on X, Sep 14, 2025.

According to @adam3us, node policy no longer has the same nudge effect on transaction propagation as it once did due to the evolution of libre relay and preferential peering, reducing the leverage of default node policies over miner-facing pathways. Source: Adam Back on X, Sep 11, 2025 According to @adam3us, efforts to tighten node-level cohesion have limited effect and, if temporarily effective, may backfire by encouraging pools to adopt direct pool APIs and private peering, further bypassing public policy controls. Source: Adam Back on X, Sep 11, 2025 According to @adam3us, traders should recognize this tilt toward private, policy-resistant propagation channels when assessing Bitcoin network assumptions around transaction relay and miner connectivity. Source: Adam Back on X, Sep 11, 2025