List of Flash News about transaction relay filters
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                                        2025-08-27 15:09  | 
                            
                                 
                                    
                                        Bitcoin BTC Mempool Policy Update: Adam Back Says Script-Level Content Filters Are Easily Bypassed, Arms Race Shown by BitMEX Research
                                    
                                     
                            According to @adam3us, older Bitcoin transaction filters were size based, while Luke aimed to implement heuristic content-based checks inside script, source: @adam3us on X, Aug 27, 2025, twitter.com/adam3us/status/1960721222368469036. @adam3us adds that such content-based filtering is trivially bypassed and represents an unwinnable arms race, which BitMEX Research demonstrated, source: @adam3us on X, Aug 27, 2025, twitter.com/adam3us/status/1960721222368469036. For traders, this indicates policy-driven attempts to curb specific transaction patterns are unlikely to be durable, so assumptions about blockspace constraints should not rely on heuristic filtering effectiveness, source: @adam3us on X, Aug 27, 2025, twitter.com/adam3us/status/1960721222368469036.  |