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JackTheMimic 4 months ago
To borrow from Will's argument you already do when the transactions you don't propagate are confirmed. I am not against side-channels I just don't know what happens if a company pays a premium to a miner for inclusion and another miner snags it from propagation (because why just bet on one horse). Do they get a fee refund or is that a cost of doing business?

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JackTheMimic 4 months ago
How would you prevent it? If company A pays MARA to mine a certain txn, then Company A also broadcasts the txn, what would hinder that? Company A is incentivized to broadcast as well as work directly with MARA. Then MARA would be on the hook for an invalid txn included in the block. But if MARA wins the race, Company A still gets included.