Replying to Avatar Dikaios1517

I say this as someone who is currently mining on Braiins and who is likely to continue mining there at least until I accrue enough to pass the payout threshold:

This whole "OCEAN is censoring transactions" thing is WAY overblown. The pool has yet to find a block since it was relaunched. That means there hasn't been a single Ordinal transaction that has failed to make it into a block due to OCEAN. Real effective censorship, eh?

Moreover, even when OCEAN does find a block, it's not like the Ordinal transactions they didn't include disappear from everyone's mempools. They'll probably make it into the very next block that is found by another pool.

Is nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft's 140 character max relay engaging in censorship because it rejects notes that don't fit that criteria? No, because you can get any other note you want to show up in your feed by getting data from other relays.

Likewise, I would not be engaging in censorship if I ran a relay that purposefully rejected pornographic content due to my own moral convictions about it. You can get the same notes from any other relay that IS willing to host them.

The same applies here. If you personally don't mind Ordinals, or even want to encourage them to continue on Bitcoin, then by all means point your hashrate to virtually every other pool out there. If you personally don't want to participate in encouraging Ordinals, then consider pointing your hashrate at the only pool out there that has said they will exclude them from their block templates.

Either way, OCEAN deciding not to include those transactions is absolutely not going to censor those transactions in the slightest if they don't make it into a single solitary block out of who knows how many before OCEAN finally finds one.

I guess the long and short of it is this:

Bitcoin is censorship resistant for the same reason that Nostr is censorship resistant.

It's not because NO ONE can reject transactions they don't like or notes they don't like, but because there is enough decentralization of mining pools and relays, with a variety of views about the types of transactions that should make it into blocks or notes that ought to be available to interact with, that it is impossible to prevent someone from transacting as they want, or prevent a note from ever being seen.

Ordinals will make it into blocks so long as even a fraction of the overall hashrate points toward pools that will include them.

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

No replies yet.