Pre-PIP Discussion: Addressing Reorgs and Gas Spikes

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@Thogard

Outside of MEV, there is no way to fully remove the randomness in the p2p layer. It can be reduced, but not removed entirely. Furthermore, transaction announcements exist for a reason - to prevent redundant data transmission. Many validators run 4+ sentries. Your PR would increase the load on the validators by a non-trivial amount as the validator node would be blasted with a redundant copy of every full transaction from each of its sentries. (The FastLane sentry patch does the opposite - it announces all txs, meaning the validator only receives the full tx once. Gotta keep those data costs down )

You used to use “CPU load” as a reason to FUD against this change, now it’s about bandwidth. You realize that they’re all in the same data center, right? Lmfao.

This is just plain and simple FUD from someone who wants to build a monopoly.