21 sats \ 1 reply \ @0200374f73 22 Nov 2023 \ on: Six OFAC-sanctioned transactions missing bitcoin
"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?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cheebug 22 Nov 2023
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that f2pool is acting on behalf of US OFAC sanctions for Chinese diplomacy reasons. Xi was just in town, supposedly asking for lots of USD. This would be a low key way to fig leaf their way back into Biden’s heart. Maybe?
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