I had no idea this is possible. We are looking at something only a mining pool can do, since they include all their extra transactions (and have to keep doing it until they "win" a real block), is that correct?
The image, in case anybody can't see it:
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/01/17/WHwH2.pngOne must wonder how the expected block consisted of only a few giant consolidation transactions.
Edit: apparently they created all those transactions themselves, they're all OP_RETURNs and the first four spells out
MARA DIGITAL HOLDINGS Welcomes
Donald J. Trump as the 47th
president of The United States of
America.
There's the US constitution in more OP_RETURNs below that too.
Seems like these transactions were mined privately by MARA.
But you can only see the image from mempool.space. I think that's a feature not a bug.
