Sure it is. Let any miner decide what spam is at their pool and the market decide what they want to use.

How many mining rig grants and small pool start ups could have been funded with $10-20M? True decentralizion opportunity. Instead one guy needs that much for what?

You talk like Bitcoin was a permissioned blockchain with OCEAN being the only pool. If you don't like what he's doing, start your own pool. It's not censorship if there are alternatives.

Its a shame that anyone that proclaims to be "bitcoin" then "filters" txs. Not very bitcoin

Yeah, it should be each bitcoiner voting what they believe is spam by configuring their node! Oh wait, that's what Luke allowed us by patching -datacarrierlimit...

They are just mining pools, individual miners can decide what they want.

good news is decentralized miners can point their hash to any pool they want. I'd take 'tx selective' pools over KYC pools.

very true

While Luke sets off my spidey senses. I'm willing to see how his alternative goes. I think more pools will be set up that mine for or against certain transactions. Like binance that prioritise their own cheap transactions first.

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Nice strawman matt The statement that people just make up nonexistent positions to be mad about could not be more true

There's a lot of buzz around your post. Added to the https://nostraco.in/hot feed

I am pretty sure the point is that he can't decide it unilaterally. He can only decide it for his mining pool, and anyone who disagrees can mine on any other pool.

Every single node unilaterally decides what is spam through their mempool policies. If you are not tech savvy enough and don't understand the details of how Bitcoin clients work, just wait until the dust has settled and let someone explain it to you. You are a big influencer in this space and therefore carry a lot of responsiblity to not mislead people with ignorant comments like this.

Fortunately I don't think he will centralize mining too much this way

Literally every Bitcoin node has done so since Satoshi's time

Why are you spreading lies?

Hide behind that Luke, if it makes you feel better. Filter/censor, spuds/potatoes. Start down that road and slide into conformity

as long as every txn does fit in the next block then whoever mines it has to select which txns to include and which to leave out i.e filter/censor/etc. Some miners filter to maximize total block reward, and others filter to maximize the number of financial/economic txns in the block. Who is anyone to tell someone else how to construct their block?

Shall we decide by social credit score? Maybe by skin colour? Perhaps we can "filter" any tx that supports Russia? Money should not be a weapon

Whoever mines the block can include or exclude any txn they want. They are not morally obligated to add any one txn. No one is entitled to block space other than whoever mines the next block. Best you can do is economically incentivize whoever mined the block to sell you block space. Unless you have a moral argument (necessarily rooted in religion/God) as to why what OCEAN is doing is wrong, then all you have is your opinion on what is right and wrong. Your opinion is not any more valid that Luke’s or anyone else’s opinion. A pastry baker that refused to bake a wedding cake for a homosexual couple because it goes against their believes is not ‘weaponizing’ desserts. That is absurd. Forcing or pressuring said baker to bake the cake is what is wrong not the opposite. Same deal here. Find another miner, you’re not entitled to other people’s services