would advocating for miners to change their pool affiliation away from f2pool be warranted?

Very interesting. Also, one mode reason to not reuse the same address.

Maybe a dumb question, but why don't these sanctioned individuals just use a different address?

"A single pool filtering transactions does not affect the censorship resistance of the Bitcoin network as a whole." Pools can leave money on the table! That's ok. Other pools will pick it up.

But most puzzling about this is: "This raises the question of why F2Pool, a pool with origins in Asia, is the first pool to filter transactions based on US OFAC sanctions." Agree, this makes no sense. More to the story?

Fascinating article. I'm glad you're here providing us with this information.

Really nice writeup, too. Lots of other cool content on your page, much to learn from it.

Time to get mining

Very interesting, we need to keep an eye on f2pool

So time to start using StratumV2 and braiins pool (previously Slush pool)

I think the game theory dictates that those who are sanctioned need to spin up their own hashrate, or start paying high miner fees to the willing.

If bitcoin is censor resistant, it still may require effort to get around sanction-loving actors like USG.

I think it was only a matter of time before this started happening. It's why decentralization is so important. One could imagine in the future there might be competing black lists; one from the West, one from China, one from some Islamic sect. This is fine as long as we have sufficient heterogeneity and some significant chunk of hash power that is maximizing for their economic interests over politics.

I don't know how to avoid the block chain. that's all

f2pool was founded in 2013 and was the largest by 2014 with a third of the Bitcoin hashrate.

Nice detailed work. Appreciate it. Makes one wonder how transactions can be "missing" from the ledger that is supposed to be immutable ... Also, there is a whole bunch of shenanigans going on that we are just learning or discovering. One thing for sure I have learned in the last few years is that it is extremely hard if not impossible to really track a transaction. Say for example: spin the node, mine a block, shut down that node address forever, send it to exchange, run through Monero, send it back to a different address and totally different wallet VPNed to another country... Find me that transaction flow or try to link it to a person... :-) We are so early, lot of things to learn for sure.