Monitoring Bitcoin mining pool transaction selection
Sunday, May 8, 2022Can we detect transaction censorship by mining pools on the Bitcoin network?
I spoke at the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2022 about mining pool transaction selection, my miningpool-observer project, and observed extra, missing, and conflicting transactions between my block templates and the blocks mined by pools. I conclude that we can detect large scale transcation censorship by but haven’t seen any concrete evidence for censorship attempts yet.
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