matt on Nostr: Mining is fairly decentralized already, transaction selection (ie the thing that ...
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.
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