I think it's critical to understand the underlying issue that affects everything about the discussion around spam and the op_return limit.
Because, imo, its the most important issue in Bitcoin right now and very few are doing anything concrete about it.
Read 881 - The Problem is Deeper Than Spam...
Guy you think this is more important than Samurai case?
The centralization issue of miners? Absolutely. Samourai is a legal situation in a specific jurisdiction, mining decentralization is fundamental to whether the technology that samourai built can even be deployed or if the censorship resistance of the network itself can be maintained.
This was a super helpful reframing- Thank you!! Is unhosted Marcellus on nostr? Thanks for keeping it real, Guy.
So good… I’m listening twice
Mining decentralization is a massive issue, and no one has done as much to address it as nostr:nprofile1qqsq9k04vahllseell55m74n3047y88pzlr0z5yany32st29fapqmgsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctc87ckyu, hands down.
Imagine if pools didn't even construct block templates at all, but were just there for coordinating reward splits.
Miners would actually be in control of what went into a block again, and they wouldn't just be rented hashers.
Anyone who wanted to get non-standard transactions into a block would have a much harder time, since pools would no longer be the decision makers with massive amounts of hash available to make it happen.
Doesn't stratum V2 help with that.
