According to @BitMEXResearch, tightening Bitcoin relay policy with your full node is unlikely to influence other nodes because it is hard to stop data flowing across the internet, source: @BitMEXResearch, X, Nov 20, 2025. According to @BitMEXResearch, loosening relay policy can materially increase your node's influence on transaction propagation and the effect scales with peer count, which is relevant for desks seeking broader broadcast of BTC transactions, source: @BitMEXResearch, X, Nov 20, 2025. According to @BitMEXResearch, for enforcing consensus rules, whether your node matters depends on its economic weight rather than its mere presence, guiding traders to focus on the economic context of their own validation, source: @BitMEXResearch, X, Nov 20, 2025. According to @BitMEXResearch, the core takeaway is that running a node primarily safeguards your own view of the chain rather than steering the wider network, a practical point for BTC settlement assurance and counterparty risk checks, source: @BitMEXResearch, X, Nov 20, 2025.

According to @BitMEXResearch, individual non-economic relaying nodes can significantly influence Bitcoin when they loosen relay policies, whereas attempts by such nodes to tighten relay policies tend to matter less for network behavior (source: @BitMEXResearch). Bitcoin Core defines standardness and relay policy rules that govern which transactions are propagated, so looser relay increases the set of transactions reaching mempools and miners, directly linking relay policy to transaction propagation and inclusion chances (source: Bitcoin Core policy documentation). For traders, changes that broaden relay can alter mempool composition and feerate competition, impacting short-term BTC confirmation probabilities and fee volatility to monitor during intraday execution (source: Bitcoin Core mining and mempool documentation). Practical signals include tracking mempool size and median feerates on public explorers to detect propagation shifts that affect execution costs and timing (source: mempool.space dashboard).

According to BitMEX Research, when Bitcoin nodes materially disagree on transaction relay rules, the less stringent and incentive-compatible relay policy tends to prevail across the network. Source: BitMEX Research on X, Sep 18, 2025, x.com/BitMEXResearch/status/1968746527414780015 For traders, the practical takeaway is that transaction propagation and inclusion likelihoods will align with policies that relay a broader set of transactions when such policies match miner incentives, shaping which transactions reach miners during policy disputes. Source: BitMEX Research on X, Sep 18, 2025, x.com/BitMEXResearch/status/1968746527414780015; Bitcoin Core release notes and policy documentation on transaction relay and mempool behavior, bitcoincore.org/en/releases/ and github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

According to @stonecoldpat0, there has been no Bitcoin spam for a while and he supports Bitcoin Core updating transaction relay rules, citing context from an @ercwl talk and stating it is not 2014 anymore, implying policy modernisation is warranted for the network stack. Source: @stonecoldpat0 on X, 2025-08-28. Relay rules determine which transactions nodes relay and accept into mempools, shaping propagation and standardness policies that directly influence throughput under load and the fee market during congestion. Source: Bitcoin Core policy and relay documentation; Bitcoin.org Developer Guide (Transactions, Mempool, and Fees). For BTC traders, any relay policy change can shift mempool composition and effective minimum fee rates for timely confirmations, so monitor mempool size and median fee-rate changes around implementation windows to manage slippage and settlement risk. Source: Bitcoin.org Developer Guide on fees and confirmation dynamics; Bitcoin Core policy documentation. Tactical takeaway: if mempool backlog rises and fee-rate floors climb following relay-policy adjustments, tighten intraday risk limits on on-chain settlement, widen withdrawal-fee assumptions for arbitrage legs, and prioritize high-fee, child-pays-for-parent strategies to maintain confirmation speed. Source: Bitcoin.org Developer Guide (fee estimation, CPFP mechanics); Bitcoin Core policy documentation.