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Deliberate non-spam mining might be a good karma 😆 nostr:nevent1qqsfhhlsk7hhna4khs2e5vsz6dk0t0chcdeym8zt7a0kjym9yds6rdgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgyzg8gk

He filtered about 30% spam txs if we judge by the flawed mempool.space block health metric.

Wow! Too bad they didn't choose a better name. DATUM MINER is pretty lame

100% health on mempool.guide because I have a real health algo 🗿

Yeah, I wonder if he let the default 😅

That's not what health means.

What does it mean?

A sane one I’d say 🫡

Block health is a measure of how many expected transactions were included in an actual mined block.

Your comment just assumes the entire block is spam. Unless you are trying to say about 30% of the block was spam and that's why they were expected but not included but that assumes the miners decision.

And they were expected by a specific mempool and block construction policy. There is no way to define block “health” without ignoring the tens of custom block construction algorithms and variations between versions

Loving the discussion... But a bit lost... A new subject...

Akshually, I think I have a better definition. The metric shows how close a mined block came to including the “ideal set of transactions” in terms of “miner incentive,” i.e. the theoretical most lucrative lineup of transactions based on fees. And we all know that most spammy txs get a break from the witness discount, which makes their data cheaper, thus allowing them to bid effectively against normal monetary txs. So if a miner deliberately leaves out spammy high fee-rate transactions, the block ends up with a lower health score, because from the metric’s perspective they left money on the table. That’s an idiotic way to describe a block’s “health” imo. It’s really more like a miner’s paycheck “health”. A more intuitive measure might be the proportion of monetary transactions in a block versus all other types of datacarrier transactions: if all are monetary, it’s 100%; if it’s 50-50, it’s 50%; if zero, it’s 0%, and so on. Maybe the dudes at mempool.space might consider renaming it. Just my two sats.

Yes.

> Unless you are trying to say about 30% of the block was spam and that's why they were expected but not included but that assumes the miners decision. That’s exactly what I was trying to say.

Well, that entropy got him the block so, I wouldn't care with 3 bitcoin coming my way.

Yeah except 3.126 Bitcoin aren't coming his way......

Well, yeah, he's pooling hash so he has payment splits. True Solo mining, he would have gotten the 3.125 plus fees.

yeah we know that. what someone's mempool has to do with the generated block? by same logic then you also have to lower the health when they add additional txs to blocks that would other wise wouldn't be there.

i wonder what is healthy for bitcoin the money.

true

it just decides health of the block from the perspective and node of mempool space. here another mempool https://mempool.guide/block/0000000000000000000094e66964da28a35c67a2d9ba1bcb46a190fb1ffb73ac