200 sats \ 3 replies \ @gunson 9 Dec 2023 \ on: On Ocean Mining Pool, Inscriptions and Luke bitcoin
Agree, and would add that once Stratum v2 is in place then that decision making is further decentralized.
If a significant amount of hash starts to filter out inscriptions then it will just make them more expensive, not censor them.
And sounds like Whirlpool (which is a great service which I use) could change their implementation if it starts to become too expensive because of the OP_RETURN limit.
People making this debate ideological and catastrophising it should consider viewing it more pragmatically.
What I sincerely can't understand is why you would launch a venture where decentralization and #stratumv2 are the marketed goals and then disband the standard mempool policy of the last 10 years.
Now the entire Ocean.xyz conversation has been sullied by this absurd and tired OP_RETURN war.
If Luke won't be able to dictate miners soon, then why on earth kick up a shit storm in the short period of time where he can dictate to the pool? Why not just stick with the policy rules in 85%+ standard miners.
Imagine if, instead of censoring Whirlpool, Ocean went out with OFAC-compliant blocks only. This is Wasabi-level regardation.
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I guess he's a better engineer than a marketer
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Let's hope so. Luke's Bitcoin is more than 2000 commits behind bitcoin:master, so I won't be surprised if more unappealing differences are uncovered in the coming weeks/months.