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Re:The Merge by ahtihn on Sunday August 21, 2022 @05:28AM (#32538601)
> so miners can filter out transactions they legally aren't allow to process and all that happens is those transactions get validated in a future block by other miners.

You could fairly easily argue that building on a chain that includes sanctioned transactions is also "processing" them. Therefore miners would need to fork the chain to remain in the clear legally or just stop mining altogether.

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Re:The Merge by thesausageking on Sunday August 21, 2022 @05:26PM (#32544621)
That doesn't make sense legally and regulators have given their blessing to the approach for Bitcoin I mentioned.

I personally think even going after stakers is a bridge too far, but in that case the staker is profiting off of the illegal transaction and they're also directly participating in processing it.

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Re:The Merge by ahtihn on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @05:45AM (#32577105)
> That doesn't make sense legally and regulators have given their blessing to the approach for Bitcoin I mentioned.

They have? Regulators have made an explicit statement on this? Can you link to it?

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