If there's no way the miners in the pool gets compensation for this, miner will leave that pool making such blocks less likely to happen.

If they do get paid for it, in a transparent way, more miners will join such pools and it will be a form of income.

Not sure where it goes from there. It might boost Lightning which isn't a bad thing. It might polute the mempool for years which isn't great.

Personally I think this will blow over and the mempool will be empty again.

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they paid 2BTC to do this. i don't know if the proceeds were given to miners or not or if the pool pocketed it.

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Once you introduce a second use case the biggest risk is that it becomes the primary use case.

Who paid 2BTC?