Personally I would also like to think that, but unfortunately Im not in the business of assuming the best from a company that has proven again and again that it does not stand on the side of human freedom.

IMO the financial incentives are perversed here regardless of whether it happens or not which is what I find concerning, as it potentially faces Ocean with deciding between being compliant to Tether’s demands and going bankrupt.

Im not deep into how Ocean works which is why I asked, but afaik the templates give submitters authority over what transactions to include, while Ocean theoretically retains control over what templates it accepts, no?

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ocean miners that use datum can broadcast found blocks directly to the network without ocean’s permission

Oh interesting. So Ocean couldnt ban you from their service in the future if, say, you broadcast a non-compliant block? Does datum thereby make, for example, Ocean‘s policy on ordinals unenforcable?

yes, ironically ocean is now the best pool to mine inscriptions, ordinals, etc

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They’ve basically been saying this the whole time. In fact mad respect to them for having opinions and yet building permissionless tech despite those opinions.

agreed, grateful for those guys, we are lucky to have them working on bitcoin

Do you really think that that’s helping bitcoin?

Reading this was such a great start to my day. I’m wondering if you can do a deep dive on ocean for a future CD episode because I didn’t know about any of this before. This is more important than the ETFs.

This was in my queue but toward the bottom I’ll check it out this week thanks Odell you’re the best! 🫡