Luke Dashjr and other critics argue the relay policy legitimizes blockchain abuse, challenging Bitcoin's principles

Quotes that support claims

“NACK. 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,” Dashjr posted on X (Twitter).

“It treats abuse of the blockchain and nodes as legitimate ‘use cases’ rather than the DoS attacks they actually are,” the developer added.