Replying to Avatar Jerome Powell 21iQ 40TPW

I can't find any reference to their blocks being orphaned, so perhaps I'm wrong. In any case, it wasn't effective since they were the only miner doing it. I highly doubt the Chinese miners would do it. Still not sure why it's important since it wasn't effective and isn't happening anymore.
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Control-Plane Capital 2mo ago

It being effective or not depends on their true intent, which we don't know for sure.

I'm pretty sure F2Pool (China) was already caught censoring transactions multiple times.

- https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-mining-pool-f2pool-acknowledges-ofac-transaction-censorship-backpedals-after-community-backlash

- https://atlas21.com/f2pool-accused-of-transaction-censorship-and-vulnerability-in-bitcoin-core/

It is important to me because it's an attack vector and I like to know about these things. If it's not important to you, it's all good 🤝

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Jerome Powell 21iQ 40TPW 2mo ago

If different pools censor different transactions it can delay them but won't prevent them. I don't think it would have any effect on L2 either.

You're right, it is important to think about. I guess I'm more focused in node implementation centralized and arbitrary data storage attacks right now.

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