Cc Crypto Mags for the scoop. 

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 Cool. Adding more fuckery and unverifiability to out of band payments. Hopefully minings exit pools that are suspected of this, but still wont be enough to help decentralize. Bitcoin is being attacked on so many different fronts now. 

 If the transaction itself pays to a certain pool's address, that might be out of band in the context that it's not calculated in the txn fee...certainly more transparent than using a credit card to pay a pool to include a txn.

I have wondered about that...if pools currently monitor the mempool for transactions that pay to their own publicly known addresses. One could pay a small txn fee and have one of the outputs be a certain pool's address, so that pool's incentive to include it is much more than other pools'. 

 Isn't that less efficient than paying them via fees? I guess it doesn't matter but there's less data on chain if done via fees than setting some of the change to go to their address 

 yeah, definitely most efficient to offer to pay whoever finds the block via txn fee...gets rolled into coinbase UTXO with all the rest 

 Whoever wants to throw money at miners be my guest. Idc at this point, waste all you corn, go ahead. Subsidized mining.  

 Absolutely amazing that Bitcoin's anti-fragile technology can resist the deluded fuckery of the PayPal kabal. #runanode #fuckThiel 

 Paypal is shady AF