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it appears that the mining pool has no ability to deny a miner’s template since, with DATUM, miners only share merkle branches with the pool and not specific transactions (although we won’t know for sure until OCEAN releases more complete documentation
At btc++, Jason from OCEAN says the do spot checks on miner's blocks periodically to make sure they aren't doing something that violates consensus.
He also implied they provide some kind of weighting for people mining blocks with fees vs say empty blocks. He was asked about this several times, and every time he answered "we have a solution for this but it's another talk entirely."
riiiiiight
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