Spiderpool undermined a transaction that paid 0 dollars per block space
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As Peter Todd explained, “there is no way of knowing” how that transaction was included.
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Spiderpool could be exploring the inclusion of data or tokens at the cost of giving up rates.
On July 11, a transaction that paid zero commissions and without priority It was included in block 904994 Minado by Spiderpool, according to data from the Mempool.Space site.
The event breaks with the usual logic of the bitcoin protocol, where miners usually prioritize transactions that higher rates are paid for block spacemeasured in Satoshis by virtual byte (SAT/VB).
Peter Todd, a recognized collaborator in the Bitcoiner ecosystem, said There is no way to determine with certainty How this transaction arrived to the block.
He also raised the possibility that the transaction has been added manually by the pool, although he clarified that Spiderpool has proven to accept transactions with low rates (such as those of 0.1 SAT/VB) provided that they are conventional transmitted.
This observation coincides with what Peter Todd has registered through his Bob OTS calendar (here “Bob” could be an internal name imposed by Todd), an Open Time Stamps server that uses economic transactions and that Spiderpool has Included consisting of their blocks.
However, Todd pointed out that manually added transactions They are usually located at the beginning of the blockswhich introduces a relevant distinction in the analysis.
User 𝙲𝚊𝚎𝚜𝚊𝚛𝙲𝚘𝚍𝚎𝚛, who shared the discovery in X, stressed that previous manual transactions They were marked as “prioritized” and ordered at the beginning of the block, unlike this, which lacks that label.
This suggests that it could be a different approach, hypothetically linked to experiments with the OPCODE Op_return, used to embed metadata, or mining strategies that go beyond traditional rates.
The transaction, identified by the hash “BC1QSP4ZSG6AX0V5ZEDGDWFCR9 … RMFWDSXS”, has a total value of 0.00001250 BTC (approximately $ 1.47 at the current price of Bitcoin).
In it, there are two main outputs: a P2WPKH output (payment to public key with witness) with 0.00001250 BTC and another marked with op_return «Runestone», with a value of 0.00000000 BTC. This indicates that the second output uses op_return Without transferring valueas seen in the following image:
The use of “Runestone” in Op_return reflects a relationship with the Runes protocol, which facilitates the creation of fungible tokens in Bitcoin.
This could explain the inclusion by Spiderpool, possibly as a non -financial incentive, such as supporting metaprocol, aligning with observations of Peter Todd on low -cost transactions (0.1 SAT/VB) normally mined.
The transaction could be explained as a possible experimental mining strategywhere Spiderpool could be exploring the inclusion of data or tokens at the cost of giving up rates, a behavior that defies the traditional economic norms of the bitcoin protocol.
