1 sat/vb transactions or less are normalized in Bitcoin
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Among the miners there are four pools, Mara Pool, F2pool, Spiderpool and Luxor.
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Recently, Spiderpool undermined an operation that did not pay commissions.
On July 14, Mononaut, Bitcoiner developer of the Mempool Explorer.
This hashrate percentage corresponds to the sum of the hashrate of four mining pools that now adopted that practice: Mara Pool, F2pool, Spiderpool and, more recently, Luxor.
Mononaut stressed that these platforms are responsible for including transactions less than 1 sat/vb, as seen in the following image:
Luxor, according to Mononaut, «apparently he has abandoned Antpool and his allies To develop your own templates of less than 1 SAT/VB ».
This decision indicates that this pool is focusing on creating specific structures to process low cost transactions, which suggests a strategic commitment to innovate in block management.
A transaction less than 1 SAT/VB implies that users They pay less than one Satoshi for each virtual byte (0.00000001 BTC, approximately $ 0.0012) that occupies in a block, a unit of measure that reflects the size of the network transaction.
Traditionally, Bitcoin operates under the logic that miners prioritize transactions with higher rates For a block space that is limited, since its main incentive is to maximize income. This new normalization breaks with that principle, raising questions about economic incentives and network dynamics.
In this context, Cryptonotics reported on July 11 that Spiderpool undermined a transaction with zero commissions and without priority in block 904994.
The Spiderpool decision challenges the concept of maximum removable value (MEV), a term that describes the benefit that miners obtain when reorder or include specific transactions to maximize profits.
The inclusion of low or no rate transactions suggests that Spiderpool could be exploring alternativessuch as the incorporation of data or tokens in the block chain, at the cost of giving up immediate income.
Finally, Peter Todd, a Bitcoin Core collaborator, said on July 15 that «it seems that Mempool (for the Mempool.space site) has also joined the game of broadcast transactions below 1 SAT/VB«.
However, he stressed that Incremental retransmission rate has not been reducedwhich implies that the replacement increases per rate (RBF) greater than 1 SAT/VB are not appearing.
This suggests that, although Mempool.
