e44dec027ceec2a5f74b65636689a51833d78a94 add release note about supporing non-TRUC <minrelay txns (Greg Sanders)
1488315d76ee40b9d021b7d0ecd01207eee4a426 policy: Allow any transaction version with < minrelay (Greg Sanders)
Pull request description:
Prior to cluster mempool, a policy was in place that
disallowed non-TRUC transactions from being
TX_RECONSIDERABLE in a package setting if it was below
minrelay. This was meant to simplify reasoning about mempool
trimming requirements with non-trivial transaction
topologies in the mempool. This is no longer a concern
post-cluster mempool, so this is relaxed.
In effect, this makes 0-value parent transactions relayable
through the network without the TRUC restrictions and
thus the anti-pinning protections.
ACKs for top commit:
ajtowns:
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ismaelsadeeq:
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Prior to cluster mempool, a policy was in place that
disallowed non-TRUC transactions from being
TX_RECONSIDERABLE in a package setting if it was below
minrelay. This was meant to simplify reasoning about mempool
trimming requirements with non-trivial transaction
topologies in the mempool. This is no longer a concern
post-cluster mempool, so this is relaxed.
In effect, this makes 0-value parent transactions relayable
through the network without the TRUC restrictions and
thus the anti-pinning protections.
Let's say an attacker wants to use/exhaust the network's bandwidth, and
has the choice between renting resources from a commercial provider and
getting the network to "spam" itself it by sending unconfirmed
transactions. We'd like the latter to be more expensive than the former.
The bandwidth for relaying a transaction across the network is roughly
its serialized size (plus relay overhead) x number of nodes. A 1000vB
transaction is 1000-4000B serialized. With 100k nodes, that's 0.1-0.4GB
If the going rate for commercial services is 10c/GB, that's like 1-4c per kvB
of transaction data, so a 1000vB transaction should pay at least $0.04.
At a price of 120k USD/BTC, 100sat is about $0.12. This price allows us
to tolerate a large decrease in the conversion rate or increase in the
number of nodes.
In the functional tests there are lots of cases where we assert != which
this new util will replace, we also are adding the imports and the new assertion
