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Likely a backend deal with mara

It doesn’t matter how much you pay the miners, the nodes won’t verify an invalid transaction.

It’s a repeat of the bigger block debate

What do you mean?

The nodes wouldn't validate the bigger blocks that hard forked into BCH

The blocksize war of 2017

I know what the blocksize war is. I’m curious as to why you say this transaction is similar? Because this transaction is valid.

I didn't say the transaction was similar

What is similar is that nodes won't verify an invalid transaction even if miners do

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Its a valid transaction

Yeah I know I was saying not a backend deal with Mara because nodes wouldn’t verify it if invalid

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Nodes can be tricked.

Where is the trick?

Did you see the 4mb jpg?

Looks like a trick to me

Can be considered a trick, but it’s still a valid tx

3.96?

Mempool has it labeled as 'Seen in Mempool'