Op 21 mei 2025, om 04:10 heeft Bob Burnett <bob.burnett@barefootmining.com> het volgende geschreven:
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That said, I suggest being very careful about projecting the current behavior of major miners as the norm or representative of the future. We are extremely early in the development of the mining industry and there is a high likelihood that over the next few years that there will a dramatic change in the list of major miners – and there very well may be changes in the philosophies and priorities of these miners as well.
I don't know what your claim of "likely" is based on, but it's certainly possible. However, we have to design the protocol for the worst case behaviour.
Assuming that “major miners” was meant to mean a group that largely is comprised of pubcos, none of the major players in the mining industry have been doing it for long - with most going public very recently (’22 and ’23).
Here's a non-standard OP_RETURN mined by Eligius, not a pubco, in 2013:
One example is just an anecdote of course, perhaps you could present data that shows older industry players hardly mine non-standard transactions.
Finally, I don’t see any compelling reason for a change in OP_RETURN policy or configurability. I speak to a lot of other miners as well and I don’t know of one a single one that feels any change is beneficial to them now.
It's not beneficial to large miners. They benefit from centralisation. It's good for them to offer paid services that bypass standardness.
- Sjors