A miner pool, Luxor, used the resources of the combined miners to mine a block of 4MB that had an image (aka an ordinal). Controversy then followed as people have different viewpoints on the topic.
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Its not mining the jpeg thats the problem here.
They were paid OTC or mined the 4mb TX for free.
They stole hash from people to do this.
This is why no one should trust this mining pool ever again.
Absolutely this. Zero credibility moving forward.
Tweet deleted so I think Ethan sees that this is gonna hurt his bottom line. Good.
i think paying a miner outside of the blockchain is difficult and can´t be replicated a lot , the guy who broke lightning had to pay like 400 dollars for one transaction, people are overreacting . it alsos make people see the miner in a worst manner, making they lose clients and revenue.