They’re also unnecessarily bulking up the blockchain making the long term storage of the full blockchain more expensive, less attainable, and therefore less decentralized. BTC forked before to prevent bigger blocks.
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But they are following the consensus rules and the blocksize is between what is completely allowed.
Previously blocks have been completely full for weeks due to transactions between exchanges sent by traders that wanted to do arbitrage.
Is that better?
Who decides what transaction is valuable or which is a 'burden' for every other user of bitcoin?