Weekly Roundup 08/19/22 (Treasury Activated Soft Fork, Coinbase vs Vitalik, do BTC miners censor?) (EP.341)
On The Brink with Castle Island
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Is There Evidence of Censorship of Mining Pools?
There's no evidence that thereis systematic censorship of certain a ses in bit corn mining at the pool level. Do i expect that to change? Ye, i actually do expect eventually treasury to ask mining pools to comply with opa. Then the question becomes, how many mining pools are there? Are us base miners, which is maybe 35 % of the network, able to use those foreign pools? And then longer term, are miners able to create their own block templates, so we don't have to rely on the pools for transaction selection? The stra stratum v aims to address this. But long term, i'm pretty optimistic, because switching between pools is trivial. Hash power is
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