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Bitcoin is censorable, and it has been censored in the past by miners refusing to include transactions that they viewed as spam. Because Bitcoin transactions a
by MerelyMortal 4y ago
Bitcoin is censorable, and it has been censored in the past by miners refusing to include transactions that they viewed as spam. Because Bitcoin transactions are public, they can be discriminated against.
- kragen 4y agoIt takes a "51% attack" majority of miners to refuse to include a transaction, and then only if they're willing to reject blocks mined by others that include it, at the risk of their own blocks being rejected by full nodes (like Coinbase's and Binance's) if their 51% majority turns out not to be as solid as they thought it was. As far as I know this has never happened; the only transactions I've seen excluded from the blockchain are unanimous things like the spam transactions you're talking about.