It has nothing to do with bitcoin incentives. More to do with the massive campaign that was launched against ocean by Samourai (a known bad player).
Ocean has published its node settings.
Show me the settings for the big 4.
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Looks like you never mined. Miners incentives are always to make as much profit as possible. They don't care about some hate campaign. Ocean's thinking is totally against the miners profit maximizing incentives with its censoring.
I have been mining for nearly 2 years.
You are thinking about the reward for the next block, I’m thinking about the value of bitcoin in 20-50 years.
I am incentivized to protect Bitcoin.
If we don’t fix the mining centralization issue, Bitcoin will trend to zero. I’m mining with ocean (and an investor in ocean) because I care deeply about ensuring bitcoin is here for my kids.
Mining centralization? Have you seen that years after years Bitcoin mining is coming even more decentralized??? You can't say any valid reason why a legit transaction should be blacklisted. This is totally against Bitcoin's fundamentals and incentives.