Why does fee prioritization in Kaspa come with an unavoidable tradeoff?

In Kaspa's transaction selection design, it is academically impossible to prioritize higher-fee transactions without also increasing the collision rate — there is no way to have one without the other. Whether you see fee priority (the ability to "buy" precedence for transaction inclusion by paying more) as a desirable feature or an unwanted bug shapes how you evaluate this design choice. If you consider fee prioritization a feature, then the increased collision rate is simply the inevitable price of that feature, not a flaw. For a beginner, the takeaway is that Kaspa's architecture forces an honest tradeoff: the network cannot offer fee-based ordering for free, and the designers are upfront that this cost is baked in.

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