You're free to transact how you want.
Nodes are free to relay what they want.
Nodes are free to run whatever software they want.
Miners are free to mine what they want.
You are free run a node and mine if you want.
That's why knots is not censoring transactions.
That's why bitcoin is censorship resistant.
You CAN NOT force anyone else to relay or mine something they don't want to.
Knots simply has stricter default mempool policy which users like.
Anyone making claims that knots = censorship either doesn't understand bitcoin and should be ignored or are lying to you and should be ignored.
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I love it! More please!!
I mean the claim that knots is ‘censoring’ tx in the mempool is kinda accurate, but the idea is that every noderunner can sensor any tx they wish (or not).
The distinction is that they censor their own mempool, not which tx are ultimately being mined.
Are you claiming that if I am a miner i am ‘censoring’ you if I don’t mine your transactions?
No not at all. Same as any node is free to broadcast any transaction they wish as long as it conforms to the protocol. Miners are free to mine any transaction they wish, as long as it conforms to the protocol. But in the case of miners there’s an economic incentive to mine the highest paying transactions rather than filter. The fee market will ultimately decide what goes into a block one way or another.
There is also economic incentives to not facilitate the degradation of the very thing that makes you money.
You should look into the ‘free market demand’ for red hair.