What is the specific policy they are changing? I’m not a dev… I’ve been working on a formal model of Bitcoin as the decentralized quantum computer, so this matters greatly to my work. While there is no “global mempool”, there is a theoretical global mempool which is the union of all local mempools. The diversity of perspective was crucial to avoiding a single centralized observer; no one node knows all possible future outcomes, and that uncertainty is part of the system’s entropy field. A proposed change of this magnitude seems to collapse the mempool before Proof-of-Work has acted. - They decide what transactions are “worth considering.” - They decide what entropy counts. -They become the pre-consensus filter, effectively collapsing the state before the decentralized measurement (mining) occurs. To me this could be reintroduction of the observer paradox, the exact one Bitcoin was built to eliminate. It seems like a centralization play. If Core dictates the mempool globally, they become the pre-observer. That breaks the physics and it breaks the trust.