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 <p class="paragraph">Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, and Luke Dash Jr., a Bitcoin Core developer, created a new Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool called OCEAN. Its creation surged amid controversy in the community while openly filtering Ordinals and BRC-20 transactions.</p> 
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 <p class="paragraph">On December 6, a privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet, Samourai Wallet, said that OCEAN is also censoring their transactions. According to Samourai Wallet, OCEAN has conclusively filtered their “Whirlpool coinjoin and BIP47 notification transactions.”</p> 
 <p class="paragraph">Notably, Luke Dash Jr. answered the post, claiming there is a bug on the wallet’s software and not on OCEAN’s side.</p> 
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    <p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is a bug in your software, not an intentional policy on our end. Why are you exceeding the standard 42 byte datacarrier size?<br><br>What is this data even for? I've looked at trying to workaround it, but can't find any technical details.<br><br>In any case, you should fix it on your…</p>— Luke Dashjr (@LukeDashjr) December 7, 2023
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 <p class="paragraph">Samourai Wallet could not directly answer this claim in the thread due to Luke having blocked its account.</p> 
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 <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-is-it-a-bug-samourai-wallet-vs-luke-dash-jr">Is it a bug? Samourai Wallet vs Luke Dash Jr.&nbsp;</h2> 
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 <p class="paragraph">However, the <a rel="dofollow" title="wallet" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/wallet.html">wallet</a>’s official account had already addressed the “bug” claims. In their words, the <a rel="dofollow" title="privacy" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/privacy.html">privacy</a> solution has worked “without any issue” since its launch in 2018.</p> 
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    <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Whirlpool users have been creating, broadcasting, and relaying standard bitcoin transactions since we released Whirlpool in late 2018 without any issue. <br><br>Miners have been relaying and mining these transactions in blocks without any issue.</p>— Samourai Wallet (@SamouraiWallet) December 7, 2023
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 <p class="paragraph">Technically, OCEAN runs a node software that is different from the most popular Bitcoin Core. This software is Bitcoin Knots, developed by Luke Dash Jr, and has some unique properties.</p> 
 <p class="paragraph">In particular, Bitcoin Knots has a limited capacity of 42 bytes for ‘OP_RETURN,’ a <a rel="dofollow" title="transaction" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/transaction.html">transaction</a> field used by Samourai’s solution. This same field has a limit of 80 bytes in the Core software since its 2016 version.</p> 
 <p class="paragraph">Essentially, the Bitcoin Knots sees <a rel="dofollow" title="transactions" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/transactions.html">transactions</a> with an ‘OP_RETURN’ larger than 42 bytes as a bug because it was designed that way.</p> 
 <p class="paragraph">Interestingly, the use of mixers and conjoin solutions has been deemed criminal by authorities such as the United States OFAC. The legendary forum BitcoinTalk recently prohibited related discussions.</p> 
 <p class="paragraph">In this context, <a rel="dofollow" title="privacy" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/privacy.html">privacy</a> enthusiasts have shown concerns about a possible regulatory capture. These concerns increase as the aforementioned supposed censorship now affects Samourai Wallet’s Whirlpool.</p> 
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<p>Source: <a rel="dofollow" target="_blank" href="https://thebittimes.com/bitcoin-privacy-wallet-says-jack-dorsey-s-mining-pool-censored-their-transactions-tbt72933.html">https://thebittimes.com/bitcoin-privacy-wallet-says-jack-dorsey-s-mining-pool-censored-their-transactions-tbt72933.html</a></p>

Bitcoin privacy wallet says Jack Dorsey’s mining pool censored their transactions

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