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Yet this action does seem like collusion which was the oringal point. I didn't know transactions could be excluded as well. Who's to say that in the future mi
by larrydag 14y ago
Yet this action does seem like collusion which was the oringal point. I didn't know transactions could be excluded as well. Who's to say that in the future miners could collude against certain merchants?
- Nursie 14y agoOh they could if they wanted, and if they knew what the addresses in use by the merchant were. This could be made difficult by the merchant continually generating new addresses. The merchant could also add a little sweetener (transaction fee), and it feels pretty likely that a proportion of the wider BTC community would overcome their (presumably) ethical concerns and process the transactions anyway. But yes, in principle, colluding miners could make life difficult for merchants they dislike. This is one reason why a large and divers base of miners is important to the BTC system.