The design of transaction fee mechanisms often yields negative or impossibility results, leading to sad but insightful counter examples. The role of impossibility results versus constructive or approximation algorithm style results in this space is crucial to consider. Complexity theory presents sharp P complete results, but unexpected probabilistic loopholes can sometimes be found. When looking at transaction fee mechanism design, it is important to consider how the framing and state space can impact these impossibility results.

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