Mining is fairly decentralized already, transaction selection (ie the thing that matters for censorship resistance) is not (because it’s controlled by the pools). Moving that task from pools to the miners would make bitcoin a lot more censorship resistant.
It’s not perfect, something like P2Pool/BraidPool may be better, but it’s 95% there and pretty achieveable, getting miners to move to something totally different is a big ask.
matt / Matt Corallo
npub185…swrdp
2024-04-13 18:12:20
in reply to nevent1q…ql7x
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npub185h9z5yxn8uc7retm0n6gkm88358lejzparxms5kmy9epr236k2qcswrdpPublished at
2024-04-13 18:12:20Event JSON
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