0xB10C – Tracepoints and monitoring the Bitcoin network

Monday, June 6, 2022

Jonas, Murch, and I chat about monitoring Bitcoin mining pools and tracing Bitcoin Core.

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Monitoring Bitcoin mining pool transaction selection

Can 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.