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@ jimmysong
2025-05-13 21:33:35
The data says on average people pay a lot more for non-standard OP_RETURN transactions and wait longer. Standardness, then decreases the cost. That's my contention.
What miners will do in the face of more non-standard OP_RETURNs being available, I have no idea. What I do know is that there are social costs to mining stuff like inscriptions, which is why MARA has a bad reputation.
Perhaps giving up a little fee revenue is worth not mining spam to some miners. In other words, it's not a straightforward calculation of miners making more money with no downside when mining these.
So yea, I would expect at least some miners to not mine them. In fact, you know the miners on OCEAN are mostly *not* mining inscriptions and the like, so there's your counterexample right there. How many of them will is the real question, because that naturally reduces the profit they make from the non-standard transactions. But I guarantee it's not everyone and possibly not even the majority as we're seeing here.