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102 sats \ 1 reply \ @ZezzebbulTheMysterious 8h \ on: DISCUSS: "If you ever made a sat from spam, you are a bad actor" bitcoin
I think the miners get a slightly free pass here. I think Knut mostly means the folks generating spam. Signing the txs, not necessary the ones bundling them. Including valid transactions is the role of the miner, not to make value judgements of its need, beyond consensus validity.
We all consent to taking others transactions, because that means our transactions are more likely to be included (censorship resistance).
When the equilibrium is upset by assholes who try to ruin it, dissonance increases in the consensus.
Including spam tx’s in blocks is inventively aligned, Infact it reassigns sats to miners in the form of fees paid by parties with malicious spamming intent.
Fair point. And that is probably closer than my uncharitable interpretation of his statements.
All the same, I do not understand why Knut takes this stance. Valid transactions are valid. They follow the rules. Bitcoin works because it allows anyone who follows the rules to get a transaction confirmed (if they pay the fee), even if other people don't like their transaction. This is the very foundation of bitcoin.
If Knut doesn't like certain kinds of transactions, he should advocate a change to the consensus rules. But trying to prevent valid transactions is a nonsensical attitude. It's the whole point of bitcoin to defeat such efforts.
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