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 While I totally understand your argument and agree that filtering OP_FALSE is indeed censorship, aren't all miners censoring to some degree?  When a miner includes their own transactions at 0 sat/vb in a block aren't they censoring someone else who paid a fee?  Inscriptions will still be picked up by other mining pools in subsequent blocks.  Granted that example isn't as wholesale as filtering a class of transactions that play by the rules, so it is worrisome.

I think we should let it cook and just appreciate the fact that we have a new pool in the mix.  That's a good thing and I hope that with Stratum V2 eventually the individual miners paying for the hash will have more of a voice as to what's included in a block.  

Perhaps this will be a change that will yield benefits down the road.  I'm going to stay hopeful for now with @OCEAN and appreciate y'all digging into the details for awareness as to how things are operating at the moment.

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P.S.  fuck ordinals I don't like them but they do fall within consensus. 
 The issue is Scale. Running a betting pool at work and not including the entire country in your facebook group, is not censorship.
Three states banning a certain minority race from participating in the lottery is.

Pools are large entities that some feel have too much legal liability and weight in securing the network. The proposed solution and the people proposing it, are censors. 
  
 Also...fuck ordinals...