Am I wrong about it being cheaper in bitcoin terms?
“Although non-payment related transactions occupy about 50% of each block, the majority of the fees paid in each block are still coming from payments. This data shows how non-payment transactions (spam) are displacing payment transactions, this is forcing payment transactions to pay a much higher fee to be included in blocks.”
Isn’t this good for miner decentralization? The mempools are empty and miners are getting most of their revenue from the subsidy reward. That’s not good.
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The subsidy from spam is less than 1% of the total block reward, fees included. It’s a marginal difference for miners mining spam vs miners than don’t. The adverse effect on nodes is much more substantial and node runners don’t get compensated for the additional burden on their machines.