Out of Band Payments & Stratum v2
1620 sats \ 3 comments \ @OT 20 Feb bitcoin
If you can pay a mining pool out of band to include a TX in their next found block, then you could also pay a mining pool to NOT include it in their blocks.
One example I can think is country A knows country B's bitcoin addresses. Then they pay the top 20 mining pools a monthly subscription to NOT include any of these TX in any of their blocks.
Can you think of any other examples? Does stratum v2 fix this?
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206 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 20 Feb
It's hard to block all Bitcoin addresses generated from the same private key~~
I get your idea, but easy to circumvent...
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101 sats \ 1 reply \ @RocketNode 20 Feb
https://b10c.me/observations/08-missing-sanctioned-transactions/
Sv2 does fix this IF pools allow miners to create their own block template. But there's also unknown/solo miners finding blocks.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT OP 21 Feb
Solo miners are very rare. Even rarer when states are also mining
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