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Marathon Launches Slipstream, a Transaction Acceleration Serviceir.mara.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1343/marathon-digital-holdings-launches-slipstream
2500 sats \ 11 comments \ @k00b 22 Feb 2024 bitcoin
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526 sats \ 2 replies \ @south_korea_ln 22 Feb 2024
By default, Bitcoin nodes frequently exclude large and non-standard transactions from Bitcoin’s mempool, even if these transactions adhere to the Bitcoin network’s consensus rules. As a result, complex Bitcoin transactions are often delayed or unprocessed. To encourage experimentation and development on Bitcoin and to enable and expedite the processing of large or complex transactions that comply with Bitcoin’s protocol, Marathon has launched Slipstream.
Is this a reaction to Ocean filtering transactions?
Marathon is the first Bitcoin mining company to offer a direct transaction submission service.
Haven't there always been ways to get pools to accept transactions directly?
Maybe I am completely missing the point. I have no experience in this.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 22 Feb 2024
Is this a reaction to Ocean filtering transactions?
It could be. Before Ocean there were still incentives to do this though.
Haven't there always been ways to get pools to accept transactions directly?
Yes, some more easily than others. There's been a lot more interest recently. mempool.space launched an acceleration service sometime last year.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @oomahq 23 Feb 2024
Correct, seems just marketing.
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516 sats \ 3 replies \ @freetx 22 Feb 2024
This is expected I suppose....as subsidy gets cut miners will need to come up with additional revenue schemes.
I'm willing to bet someone comes up with a "monthly service" fee for large customers. Something like pay X sats and get fast-lane access for the entire month....
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188 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b OP 22 Feb 2024
I'm willing to bet someone comes up with a "monthly service" fee for large customers.
Not a bad idea. Although I wonder how regularly people use these services.
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516 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 22 Feb 2024
Maybe payment processors + Exchanges + large financial institutions would.
The unknown is if your pool doesn't win the next several blocks...but I guess the argument is if a large mining pool has 20% of the hash rate, then they should get 1 out of ever 5 blocks on average.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @oomahq 23 Feb 2024
Nah, this is basically for getting non-standard TXs on the chain.
Payment processors, exchanges and large financial institutions doing normal TXs don't have any need to bypass the spam filters. Going through the normal mempool is cheaper and faster.
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308 sats \ 1 reply \ @DudeJLebowski 23 Feb 2024
No surprise, Marathon are bad actors.
The sooner we upgrade the default filtering to include the latest batch of exploits the better. Miners will fall in line, as usual.
Like it or not, Core policy is seen as a proxy for consensus and miners take direction from that. Core devs are letting Bitcoin down right now.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @02ac4a7bd5 23 Feb 2024 freebie
Change consensus if you want to change Bitcoin.
10 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 23 Feb 2024
Via BTC has been doing this for years. Where did this word "acceleration" come from?
mempool.space
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SaToSHiWoMaN 24 Feb 2024 outlawed
stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.