What is the incentive for a mining pool to exclude hundreds of high fee transactions and include a bunch of low fee transactions instead? Any such mining pool would likely quickly lose much of its hashrate as miners swapped to more profitable pools.
most mining pools have their shares set where the POOL MANAGER takes the fee's and the MINERS JUST SHARE THE 6.25 reward.. thus miners dont benefit from the fees.
yes miners will move to pools that do profit share the fee's but pool managers would just change their % cut.
all in all miners dont gain much either way.
miners make their profits not from tx fee's but by hoarding until the spot market is above their costs. yep miners help support the spot market.
also pools dont always care for fee's
antpool for instance done 3 empty blocks in the last couple days
789,121 789,145 788,886
also when most pools are collecting fee's of 2-6btc antpool was also filing block with less than 1btc of fees
789,174 789,165 789,163 789,162 789,149 789,093
foundry pool for instance has alot more instances of blocks with under 1btc in fees
binance pool, however, is lot more greedy, with less fees under 1btc
but no.. not all pools just collect the highest fee transactions.
let me cut straight to the depths of debunking your opinion
foundry has the highest hashrate but accepts transactions with less fee's. meaning people are not hopping away to other pools to grab fee's and foundry is not filling blocks with transactions to continually grab 4-6btc in fee's
also binance pool with only a 3rd the hashrate of foundry. is showing although they are greedy about fee's their hashrate/block solves over the last fortnight is DROPPING
as for this spam fee mania of ordinal kind:
remember. pools didnt write the code to exploit blockspace. core devs did. so when core devs say its not devs problem and not devs fault and say that its miners fault and miners greed.. well its not the asic owners greed of individuals because individual asic owners dont benefit from the fee war.
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