I thought it was expected behavior of Bitcoin Knots, which Ocean uses?

Careful when associating with deranged cat-eaters.

Is it a feature, not a bug?

Should be a critical bug with public tracking —stuff like this makes me reconsider who I pool with and I’d like some assurance a solution is actively being implemented.

Whirlpool TxO transactions are not a bug, they use 46 bytes of 80 core default to confirm fee is paid- also as an anti sybil feature which in turn generates revenue for a FOSS project Ocean is imposing non core default of 42 limiting honest users of best privacy tools in bitcoin