Here's my two sats:
The uproar over nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze filtering what they consider to be transaction spam reminds me very much of when people were raging at Primal for filtering Semisol out of the trending feed.
In both cases, my take was the same: you can use a different client, and you can mine to a different pool.
#Bitcoin and #Nostr are both open protocols.
If you don't like what Ocean is doing, then don't give them your hashpower. If you agree that ordinals are transaction spam, you should point your hashpower to this pool.
Also, FWIW, it appears that whirlpool transactions were simply caught up in this filtering as an Innocent bystander due to their OP_RETURN byte size. 🤷
Not saying you shouldn't express your views on Nostr. Rage away if you want to and try to change other's minds about it if you feel compelled to. But more importantly, vote with your hashpower. 💪🫡
Discussion
Reasonable. But there is a problem with centralized entities doing this on behalf of their users, and then those users casually finding out on social media or other networks, not having known.
This only shines a major light on why mining decentralization is so important. Is this was all stratum V2 and miners were running their own nodes, none of this would matter.
Agree on all points. nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze should have been forthcoming about this policy from the get go. Also I'm very disappointed that StratumV2 hasn't been widely implemented yet. I suspect pool operators maybe don't wish to abdicate this control.
We definitely need to see more pools come online. I guess perhaps I shouldn't just sit here and bitch about it while waiting for others to take action. Perhaps I should launch a pool myself? 🤷