Bitcoin Core Emphasizes User Freedom in Transaction Relay Policy Decisions

• Bitcoin Core reaffirms user autonomy in software choices, rejecting auto-updates and enforcement.
• The development team supports moderate spam filtering without blocking economically viable transactions.
• Paid transactions like inscriptions remain supported as long as they align with technical health and miner incentives.Bitcoin Core developers have released a statement reinforcing their stance on user autonomy and network decentralization. The announcement clarifies that Bitcoin Core contributors do not hold the authority to impose mandatory policies on users.

  Instead, the network is guided by a principle of voluntary participation, where individuals are free to run any software they choose, maintaining the decentralized ethos of Bitcoin. This long-standing approach includes the absence of automatic updates in Bitcoin Core software, ensuring that all changes must be consciously adopted byusers.