Recently, two F2Pool-mined Bitcoin blocks excluded transactions marked "sanctioned".
How it works:
Transactions enter a mempool, awaiting inclusion in a block. Miners typically choose those with the highest fees. But F2Pool's blocks 875575 & 875840 seem to actively exclude certain transactions, not just low-fee ones. These excluded txs were linked to sanctioned addresses.
This raises concerns:
- Most blocks are mined by large, known pools.
- If pools are able to reject transactions deemed "criminal", including them could be seen as complicity.
If governments push this, pools might censor transactions. Imagine:
- You swap BTC for USDT on Rabbit Swap.
- Your or the recipient's address is sanctioned.
- Your tx won't be confirmed until a brave anonymous miner includes it – maybe hours, maybe years.
- These txs will then compete, raising fees drastically.
This leads to losses.
Solution:
Use second layers like Lightning, Liquid, Rootstock for your BTC transactions. All of these are supported on rabbit.io.
