>> On Mar 7, 2019, at 19:09, Wilmer Paulino via bitcoin-dev
>> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> ...
>> Nodes on the network can not generally be trusted to send valid ("reject")
>> messages, so this should only ever be used when connected to a trusted node.
>
> Nodes in the network generally rely on the assumption that they are connected
> to at least one honest peer, so we can actually converge on the set of honest
> peers and ban/disconnect any who send an invalid reject message for a valid
> transaction.
This implies the reject message is valid only when it is expected (i.e. the
sender is knowingly sending invalid transactions), which is presumably useful
only in a local development environment.
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