Exactly what @optimism says here: policy is capable of discouraging new behavior from taking a first foothold, or as long as almost the entire hashrate does not accept the new behavior. Low-feerate transactions had been propagating on the network for years before the sub-sat-summer, but when one miner started including the low-feerate transactions the behavior was adopted quickly by a larger part of the network.
I don’t have the exact numbers on hand, but I agree with Optimism that a surprisingly low adoption among the node population is sufficient for transactions to propagate somewhat reliably, even more so if they are preferentially peering. Laurent had some interesting simulation results regarding transaction propagation here: https://x.com/LaurentMT/status/1973416866212180089.
Exactly what @optimism says here: policy is capable of discouraging new behavior from taking a first foothold, or as long as almost the entire hashrate does not accept the new behavior. Low-feerate transactions had been propagating on the network for years before the sub-sat-summer, but when one miner started including the low-feerate transactions the behavior was adopted quickly by a larger part of the network.
I don’t have the exact numbers on hand, but I agree with Optimism that a surprisingly low adoption among the node population is sufficient for transactions to propagate somewhat reliably, even more so if they are preferentially peering. Laurent had some interesting simulation results regarding transaction propagation here: https://x.com/LaurentMT/status/1973416866212180089.