⚡ F2Pool Implements Transaction Filtering?
posted 22 Nov 2023
F2Pool, a prominent Asian Bitcoin mining pool, appears to be enforcing
U.S. sanctions by selectively filtering transactions from wallets
identified on the OFAC blacklist.
After
analyzing four transactions under sanctions that F2Pool had not
processed, Bitcoin developer 0xB10C surmised that their exclusion was
likely intentional. This is based on the understanding that mining pools
have the discretion to pick and choose the transactions they wish to
process.
"The
Bitcoin network, however, continues to work as normal. A single pool
filtering transactions does not compromise the overall censorship
resistance of the Bitcoin network," the developer points out.
Yet,
since all these transactions were from a single wallet, it remains
uncertain if F2Pool is systematically avoiding transactions from
specific wallets or if this was an isolated case.
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