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I don't know if they have each other as peers. I do know that at least two pools have complained that ignoring the subsat tx filters caused them to lose money via an increased orphan rate. CKPool complained about this here: https://x.com/ckpooldev/status/1957235824451559746 and Mara Pool complained about it here: https://x.com/PortlandHODL/status/1958520763083825640

So if they *are* peering with one another it is apparently insufficient. The miners who *ignore* that peering (maybe Ocean?) and just broadcast blocks to the rest of the network benefitted by getting their blocks propagated faster, and winning more races. I want to see that play out again, but this time with inscriptions, and to that end I am excited to see the Knots count rise.

That's not what your linked posts are complaining about. Both pools have an orphan rate of zero. In fact all pools mining sub sat txs have an orphan rate of zero https://x.com/mononautical/status/1968138304265900433

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Wete they complaining about greater *risk* of orphan blocks rather than an increased *rate* of orphan blocks?

The risk is purely hypothetical. However both pools made *more* money by mining sub sat txs. They certainly didn't *lose* money.

It seems strange to stop doing a profitable thing because of unfounded fear. Do you find their behavior strange?

That's the thing: it is NOT profitable as according to ckpool it increased rewards by 0.06% which is nothing.

It means that if one in 1667 mined blocks of pool gets orphaned all the profit is gone.

Compare it with inscriptions which at times nearly overpayed the block reward.

0.06% seems clearly different from "nothing"