Mempool policy

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Claim: mempool policy functions as Bitcoin's administrative state, shifting rule-making out of consensus into node defaults. Examples: CPFP carve-outs and package-relay workarounds address pinning attacks and pre-signed Lightning fee bumps; cluster mempool reduces some failures. Timeline shows development gaps (most soft forks since 2011 come from Pieter Wuille; only two soft-fork activations proposed since 2016) and many policy tweaks that can silently break channels, favoring complexity as advantage for experts over plain rules.

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1. 0:00Mempool policy basics
2. 1:49Ossification in Bitcoin
3. 4:57Mempool vs administrative state
4. 11:56Bitcoin must stay changeable
5. 13:43Consensus vs mempool policy
6. 15:28Layer 2 policy complexity
7. 18:55Policy changes bypass debate
8. 20:59BIP 9 transparency decline
9. 22:24Anti-fragile decision-making
10. 23:28Q&A

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