Bitcoin (BTC) wallet provider Samurai Wallet has accused BTC mining pool Ocean of censoring Whirlpool Coinjoin transactions and BIP47 notification transactions since December 6th. However, Ocean’s CEO denied this claim while calling on Bitcoin wallet providers to fix bugs in their software. .
On December 7th, Samourai Wallet claimed that new policies instituted by Ocean mining pool are censoring certain Bitcoin transactions. Additionally, the wallet provider accused Block co-founder Jack Dorsey, an investor in X (formerly Twitter) and Ocean, of “hostile conduct.”
I can confirm that @ocean_mining As of December 6, 2023, we have instituted a policy to censor Whirlpool Coinjoin transactions and BIP47 notification transactions.
This is a regrettable act on the part of the management. @Jack and @LukeDashjr Far surpassing any hostilities we have ever seen.
— Samourai Wallet (@SamouraiWallet) December 7, 2023
In this thread, Samurai Wallet also accused Bitcoin Core developer and Ocean founder Luke Dash Jr. of censoring transactions and introducing a trading blacklist in the past, stating that he He has indicated that he has long intended to do so.
Samourai Wallet’s latest indictment accuses Dashjr of imposing a 46-byte instead of 80-byte limit on the OP_RETURN function that was enforced in Bitcoin Core version 0.12. As a result, Samourai Wallet claims that Ocean has excluded privacy-enhancing transactions and advised miners to “reconsider their hashing power and direct it to a different pool.”
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Dashjr refuted Samourai Wallet’s claims against Ocean, saying:
“This is a software bug and not an intentional policy on our part.”
He also seemed unconvinced by the concerns raised by wallet providers, asking, “What on earth is this data for?” I looked into trying to work around this, but couldn’t find any technical details. ”
Dashjr did not take any responsibility and asked Samourai Wallet to “resolve it on your side.” This conversation has divided the crypto community in favor of different schools of thought.Several supported The wallet provider explained that “80 bytes is 80 bytes” and advised other providers to fix the bug. One of our community members, a former ASIC and iOS developer, said: believed it New policy to enforce censorship was “unintentional”.
Additionally, Brad Mills of Nostr Wallet Said“We do not have any policy to censor Whirlpool or privacy-protecting transactions.”
This is sensational. We have no policy to censor swirly or privacy-preserving transactions.
The whole point of Oceans’ game-changing block template scheme and Coinbase payments is actually to protect your privacy.
Operate with integrity.
Luke might not have wanted it before…
— Brad Mills ⚡️ (@bradmillscan) December 7, 2023
Samourai Wallet continues to accuse Dashjr of shifting responsibility away from himself, deceiving community members, and lying. ask The community said, “Please don’t let them get away like this.”
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