You're departing from how we've been treating unconfirmed transactions so far. While discounting the tail of the mempool for top transactions intuitively makes plausible, instead of treating every transaction at its face value, that generally introduces new potential attack vectors. I'd like to see a more substantial exploration of that before I'd be convinced that's not a problem

Murch

Ok, so your comment was based on the assumption that the cycling problem isn't fixed.

If it is fixed, do you have further objections?

petertodd

bitdevs

Peter Todd proposes RBFr

niftynei

Affecting only listening nodes is less effective than affecting all nodes and broadcasting 205 kvB _every few seconds_ at the cost of paying for 200 vB every few blocks is worse than broadcasting 404 kvB at a definitive price of paying for 50 vB.