Title is a joke.
But F2pool did bailout PayPal/Paxos once already when they mined the block with Fat Finger tx. And decided to send it back instead of paying out to miners.
In 2008 fiat banks get bailed, people screwed
In 2023 bitcoin banks get bailed, people screwed
Was it an honorable choice by the pool's CEO? Or an example of how mining centralization just results in a different form of central banking.
Bitcoin-core consensus decided that F2Pool owns that reward. But "social consensus" says F2Pool doesn't own it.
What's to stop social consensus from one day increasing the 21M hard cap if it can override core consensus in this way?
People act like core consensus is a natural law of the universe. There will NEVER be more than 21M... well unless everyone decides its a good idea.
Not your keys, not your coins. Or inversely stated, if the sats are "in your keys", then those are your your sats... well, unless they were sent there by "accident" by a well-known entity.