I always thought this scenario was an "if", and that more people would be disgusted by this behavior and do something about it. Given how little everyone seems to care, I worry this scenario is now a "when".

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This is real? I mean did Jack Dorsey and Luke Dash really do that?

I am seriously sick of this action. What is their motive? Please enlighten me, what do they have to win taking this measure?

So it's not really a censorship, it's just bad coding by Bitcoin Knots. It would've been a bit surprising if these high-profile people suddenly started going on a tirade against coordinators, after all the events that happened here.

But lets be realistic here - what percentage of network hashrate does Ocean pool have? I would be surprised if its even at 5%.

But it's a prime example of why trying to ban ordinals is a mistake. You will absolutely end up banning other legitimate use cases, while the ordinals can easily move their arbitrary data to elsewhere where it is impossible to ban.

A tiny amount. This censorship from Ocean will be irrelevant to Whirlpool, but it's a terrible precedent to set and governments will absolutely latch on to this as more proof that mining pools can censor at will.

This is the direct continuation of the initial topic opened by the OP.

I bet Uncle Sam is holding Jack by the balls so he decided to make up some vague technical reason why they can't  process coinjoin transactions. Probably a call from some 3 letter agency saying "stop processing these transactions or we'll stop you". 

Yes, it is possible to taint banknotes either by putting invisible ink on them or having their serial numbers treated specially when they are used at certain financial institutions.
It is easy for the government to check if a banknote is tainted but it is very difficult to get a list of people who own tainted banknotes. Tainted banknotes serve well when the police needs to catch someone taking bribes, but when they circulate in the society it is very difficult to find the path of a tainted banknote.

With government-controlled electronic money (bank money used in credit/debit cards and CBDCs)  they don't even need to specially taint anything. All transactions are visible to the government.

So we can say that the banknote anonymity is not perfect but it is quite good compared to that of the government-controlled electronic money.

The tainting provided by the various "chainalysis" companies does not work perfectly because transactions have multiple inputs and outputs and that is why these companies return a probability score instead of a true/false flag. I am skeptic of their reliability, but putting aside that, the real problem is the KYC. It is similar to writing a report to the government each time when you buy something at the corner store or lend $100 to your friend.

The European Commission works relentlessly on turning the EU into a totalitarian state, so I wouldn't  be surprised if sooner or later they introduce banknotes with RFID chips. But this kind of "cash" will have very little in common with the real cash that we use now.

Haven't you heard about UAHFs (User Activated Hard Forks)? Users & node operators can unanimously agree to censor Ordinals inscriptions even if miners don't like it. After all, they don't posess full control over the BTC blockchain. Once there's a supermajority of network nodes running software with the filter, Ordinals will be gone for good. I know this goes against Bitcoin's censorship-resistant principles, but it's for the best if we want low fees again.

OFAC-sanctioned transactions, on the other hand, are another story. Miners shouldn't censor these transactions just because the US government wants to. Isn't the whole idea to make Bitcoin an independent monetary system from banks and governments alike (no middlemen)? We've entered uncharted territory, so either BTC remains a censorship-resistant cryptocurrency or all the other way around. The future is widely unpredictable, so we can only hope for the best.

You just need to look at the court case of Roman Sterlingov for proof of how completely unreliable they are. Chainalysis had to admit under oath that they have absolutely zero scientific process underlying any of their methods, that they have absolutely zero proof that any of their methods work as advertised, and they have no data at all on how many false positives they generate. In other words, the entire thing is little more than guesswork.

So in summary - censorship you agree with should be allowed, but censorship you don't agree with should be banned.

Can you not see how this is a problematic statement to make? Bitcoin is either censorship resistant, or it isn't. Allowing some censorship that some users think is ok opens the door to any and all censorship.

HmmMAA is a butthurt BSV fanatic/big blocker, don't mind him...

Sorry for reviving this topic. Anything new on this matter?