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As I understand, transactions with non-standard output scripts won't be propagated through the network. I'm wondering if I were to mine a block with weird transactions whether it would be accepted by nodes.

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Yes, a valid block containing non-standard transactions would be accepted by nodes. The rules for mempool acceptance, called “mempool policy” are much stricter than the consensus rules that apply to validating a block.

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