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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: OFAC-Sanctioned Transactions Being Censored
by
BlackHatCoiner
on 28/11/2023, 18:52:29 UTC
Ok, that's the bet. But we need to actually do something about it when faced with pools like F2Pool which are enforcing said corruption.
I say we do what we're already doing. Writing software. When exchanges started implementing KYC, and out of nowhere taint appeared, decentralized exchanges emerged as a need. And they did because centralized exchanges were central point of failures. Today there is a volume of more than 2 million dollars worth of bitcoin, with over 900 trades, proving that it works: https://bisq.markets/.

Now, mining in a decentralized manner but with attractive conditions is what's needed.

When it comes to other options, I've spoken before about Stratum V2, and with perfect timing I see this news story pop up yesterday: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/demand-launches-worlds-first-stratum-v2-bitcoin-mining-pool
Good news. Miners deciding the candidate block's transactions is step 1. Step 2 would be to decentralize their coordination altogether, because now the government will be hostile towards the mining pools that'll adopt this.