I feel like fractured mempools are inevitable. Why are our best and brightest fighting so hard against something that is inevitable? If bitcoin is not resilient to fractured mempools then it was never going to work.

I don't believe this for a second. I believe bitcoin is far more resilient than our experts think it is. We need to take the leash off and let this doggie run.

There are so many more and larger issues to starting a new pool. Eeking out a sliver of profitability from your block templates just doesn't move the needle. We're not gonna fix mining centralization by twiddling with policy knobs.

I think we win by empowering plebs to run their own pool. The deeper I get into this problem the more convinced I am that we need to completely rewrite the whole mining stack. It's a massive undertaking.

I am continually confused and frustrated by the amount of attention and resources focused on bitcoin core. It seems like a severe misallocation of resources and the current drama is just a symptom of the root problem.

If I had my druthers we would have several large funding orgs focused exclusively on mining and less orgs focused exclusively on bitcoin core.

Y'all are missing the forest for the trees. We need more bitcoiners to step back and look at the big picture.

Just my 2 sats...