Samson Mow, CEO of JAN3, and Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr publicly criticized Bitcoin Core’s transaction relay policy changes, claiming they enable blockchain spam and compromise Bitcoin’s intended role as a monetary system

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“Bitcoin Core devs have been changing the network gradually to enable spam and now seem focused on also removing barriers for spammers,” Mow said.

In an X post, Dashjr noted: “The goals of transaction relay listed are basically all wrong. Predicting what will be mined is a centralizing goal. Expecting spam to be mined is defeatism. Helping spam propagate is harmful.”