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It has already been mentioned in other topics that if two or three large mining pools align themselves, they can achieve "ordinal" transactions with the sole purpose of increasing fees. Because in the end, they will always win, as the fees they are paying are for themselves.
I disagree , that assumption is partly flawed . If pools don't own the majority of hashrate under them , they are just throwing money down the drain . Miners get paid for their work , pools just get a percentage of the reward . And pools will not earn the reward of each block , only the percentage of their share over total hashrate over time.Pools are like representatives of the miners who work with them. The higher the value of the mined block (base reward + fees), the more money everyone earns (miners and pool). Furthermore, only 2 pools represent +50% of the hash power. Therefore, the probability of undermining the block is much greater.
But, as I said, they shouldn't be doing that. Now, it is still a way to artificially increase rates (among others), whether with Ordinals or not.
Edit: Satoshi described exactly, what is the incentive for mining BitDNS, and the same is true for every properly-created sidechain:
Satoshi gave the recipe for everything to work in a stable and suitable way for everyone. But people prefer to reinvent the wheel...
It can be said that it is not mandatory to follow everything Satoshi said, as Bitcoin is not his. Yes it is true. But, I think there is nothing better than following the project creator's instructions, so that things go as smoothly as possible.
This is the same as buying a washing machine, and not wanting to follow the manufacturer's instructions, and instead of washing clothes you put dishes in the machine. Would the dishes be washed? Yes, but a lot of things would be broken.
