Ocean Mining Pool denies claims of censoring certain Bitcoin transactions

Bitcoin (BTC) wallet provider Zamora Wallet has accused BTC mining pool Ocean of censoring Whirlpool CoinJoin transactions and BIP47 notification transactions since December 6. However, Ocean's top executive dismissed the complaint, asking the Bitcoin wallet provider to fix the problem in its software. .

On December 7th, Zamora Pocket announced that a new policy issued by Ocean mining pool will censor certain Bitcoin transactions. They also accused wallet provider X (formerly Twitter) and blockchain co-founder Jack Dorsey, an ocean investor, of “hostile action.”

We can confirm that @ocean_mining has adopted a policy of censoring Whirlpool coinjoin transactions and BIP47 notification transactions from December 6, 2023.

This is a deplorable act by operators @jack and @LukeDashjr and is far more hateful than we've seen before.

— Samourai Wallet (@SamouraiWallet) December 7, 2023

In the thread, Zamora Valet also hinted at its long-term intentions, accusing Bitcoin Core dev and Ocean founder Luke Dashjer of censoring transactions and deploying blacklists for transactions in the past.

Samurai Wallet's latest accusation blames Dashjr for introducing a 46-byte limit for the OP_RETURN function instead of 80 bytes, which was implemented in Bitcoin Core version 0.12. As a result, Zamora said WalletOcean does not include privacy-enhancing transactions and advised miners to “reconsider it and point your hash power to another pool.”

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Dashjir refutes Zamora's wallet's claims to the ocean:

“This is a bug in your software, not a deliberate policy on our end.”

Additionally, he appeared unsure of the concerns raised by the pocket provider, “What is this data for? I looked into trying to work around it, but couldn't find any technical details.

Dashjir takes no offense and asks Samurai Wallet to “finally fix it.” The debate divided the crypto community into favoring different schools of thought. While some supported the wallet provider with the “80 Bytes is 80 Bytes” narrative, others advised them to fix the bug. One community member, a former ASIC and iOS developer, believes the new policy enforcing censorship is “unintentional”.

Additionally, Brad Mills from Our Wallet said, “Whirlpool does not have a policy of censoring transactions to protect privacy.

This is sensational. There is no policy of censoring transactions to protect circulation or privacy.

The whole point of Oceans Game's block template scheme and change of sinebase fees is actually to protect privacy.

Let us act in good faith.

Luke may not have wanted to before…

— Brad Mills ⚡️ (@bradmillscan) December 7, 2023

Zamora Wallet continues to accuse Dashjir of lying and deceiving community members, shifting the blame away from himself as he pleads with the community to “don't let them get away with this.”

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