Personally I call bullshit on that.
If they're going to mine standard blocks it'll be more because they don't have enough people to maintain a monster-sized codebase with their own censorship additions AND fend off the security vulnerabilities all the while, rather than any change in morals they might have had.
I've been thinking one of these years, I start my own mining operation to offset any crap that Marathon runs on the network.
Nah it's neither morals nor technical, it's just about money. Try being competitive mining pool when you can only mine a subset of transactions that everybody else can. Like you you have to pass on a ton of well paying transactions and include scraps in your block just to see next miner pick them up and include in the next block on top of yours. Passing on financial incentives to someone else is never good for business
Exactly. OFAC was doomed from the start.