2537 sats \ 6 replies \ @0xB10C 1 Dec 2023 \ on: Ocean.yxz find a block! bitcoin
It seems to me they aren't mining transactions with larger OP_RETURN outputs, likely because they are running Bitcoin Knots. That's a weird way to say "Hello World" as a pool which has a big "Bitcoin is no longer censorship-resistant, and mining centralisation endangers its security too. It's time to fix that.". IMHO just use the default Bitcoin Core template...*.
*. they're obviously free to mine what ever they want, but all the "block template transparency" blabla could have, from the start, included that they diverge from the (current) default mempool policy.
Luke Jr not a PR guy :)
reply
Wait a minute. I thought that Ocean was using Stratum V2, and as such each miner gets to decide what goes on the block.
reply
Nope. They say they plan to, but are not currently
reply
There should be far more attention paid to DEMAND which actually is the first Stratum v2 pool allowing miners to select transactions. https://x.com/bitentrepreneur/status/1730350206317703648?s=12
reply
So in other words OCEAN promised to be a censorship-free pool that's trying to decentralize Bitcoin using stratum v2.
So all the people who believed in this instead got a classic stratum pool running Luke-jr's bitcoin fork that rejects ordinals. So much for censorship-resistant and decentralized
reply
Fair point i imagine they will provide more clarity soon .
reply