And you still think miners are freedom maxis?
The state capture of bitcoin is happening right before our eyes.
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Which block is this?
It's happened before, nothing surprising or unusual.
Miners are just profit-seeking entities. If some bad apples try something funny, good apples will resist to keep the protocol safe and secure. Because nobody wants to be left with pile of useless single-purpose computers because someone decided to suck up to some orange man.
I don't think honoring the first "Bitcoin President" is state capture. If Bitcoin is that vulnerable, I guess I was misled.
If I was a miner I would not do this, and I would not be happy about it if I was a Mara shareholder, but this is literally miner freedom... They have the right to include whatever transactions they want in a block. They didn't even bloat the chain to include this. It's not spam, it's not a nft, it's just a trick that leverages how mempool dot space shows the blocks.
This is a nothing burger.
Sure, they also have the right to censor the transactions of terrorists, Russian people or other groups.
This shows the increasing bond between US miners, the old financial system and politicians.
I don't know if THIS shows that, but I definitely agree that large public miners do have significantly larger geopolitical risk than other stakeholders.
THIS is a literal joke.