Oh come on Jimmy. Lots of transactions in general pay too high a fee. With such a small sample size that’s not evidence of anything.
Just did a little sleuthing on the OP_RETURN > 83 bytes from @oomahq
's post (https://x.com/oomahq/status/1916793928025596338).
There were 30 such transactions in the ~4 month period:
8 had reasonable fees (< 2x the median for the block)
11 had around double fees
7 had around triple fees
4 had 5x-8x fees
9 were mined by F2Pool (10-11%)
21 were mined by Mara (6-7%)
So in general, the OP_RETURN filter means the non-standard transactions were on average paying a good deal more than normal transactions to get into a block. And since only about 18% of the hashing power seems to mine them, they had to wait 5-6x longer to confirm.
If the point of filters is to make spamming cumbersome and costly, I'd say that they're doing their job. TX IDs in the first comment so you can look for yourself.
Discussion
Yes, IIRC Slipstream charges something like 2x for its use. Your data lines up pretty good with that. But that also doesn’t imply anything about standardness materially increasing the cost (F2Pool doesn’t charge extra at all!).
More importantly, if there’s any material sustained demand is your claim seriously that miners wouldn’t just run Libre Relay and instead watch their competition make 3% more revenue (a huge increase in profit!)? Or are you claiming they’ll just go out of business and this is good for bitcoin?