Bitcoin censorship dispute pits Ocean miner freedom against lost fees

Bitcoin mining pool Ocean has faced a transaction censorship allegation after developer Kruw accused an individual miner of excluding his transaction from block 973,817 and leaving transaction fees 7.68% below an expected template. Summary Kruw accused Ocean miner Powre of excluding his consolidation transaction from Bitcoin block 973,817. A comparison he shared showed transaction fees 7.68% below the expected block template. Coinjoined Chris defended miners’ control over transaction selection through Ocean’s DATUM setup. Kruw argued the pool should reject work that deliberately sacrifices participants’ fee income. Kruw raised the complaint in an Oct. 30 exchange on X, sharing a block comparison and asking Ocean’s Coinjoined Chris to intervene. Their discussion developed into a disagreement over whether a pool should enforce fee collection when individual miners choose which transactions to include. Chris said he supports CoinJoin and wants miners to collect economically attractive fees, but opposed using pool payouts to control their choices. Bitcoin block comparison fuels censorship allegation In his initial post, Kruw identified the miner as “Powre” and described the excluded tr...