a few have been lobbying for and fanboying blockstream for months. but when actually asking them to explain in detail why people are wrong
I feel like there is correlation with you not being able to understand SegWit properly. I recommend listening to the latest Bitcoin podcast, Andreas is talking about it.
i recommend you listen to andreas's podcast again
if you request transactions the old way will get a transaction without a witness
new clients have the options now to have transactions with witness or without
so goodluck old clients. your just going to relay transactions that are uncheckable and meaningless and you cant do anything about it.. making you redundant and a limp node
its funny that miners raised the transaction fee to 0.0005(22cent) and then tell people the only way to get cheap tx fee's again is to upgrade!
oh and a 75% discount in fee's is still 0.000125(5.6cent), which is higher than last years 0.0001(4.5cent)
seriously you need to look outside the blockstream box to see the big picture. thats not consensus, thats corruption, blackmail and bribery and leaving those that dont follow your agenda to be left to rot