'Not even a single TX has been censored on ETH' — Cyber Capital founder

Ethereum bulls person deed backmost against claims the web has go prone to censorship post-Merge, with 1 arguing that “not adjacent a single” transaction has been censored connected the network. 

In a 19-part thread to his 29,100 followers connected Oct. 17, Cyber Capital laminitis and CIO Justin Bons argued that contrary to “what immoderate Bitcoiners are falsely claiming,” not a azygous transaction connected Ethereum has been stopped arsenic a effect of Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions.

Bons was referring to caller reports suggesting Ethereum has go excessively reliant connected OFAC-compliant Miner Extractable Value (MEV)-Boost relays since the Merge.

Last week, it was reported that much than 51% of Ethereum blocks are present complying with the U.S. sanctions aft transitioning to proof-of-stake (PoS). 

The crypto-fund manager argued that contempt the expanding beingness of OFAC-compliant MEV-Boost relays, it lone becomes censorship erstwhile producers garbage to physique connected non-compliant blocks, though that would effect successful forking and splitting of the chain, explaining:

“Even with 50% OFAC compliance, a non-compliant ETH TX volition beryllium confirmed wrong 30 sec! Compared to BTC's much adaptable 10min!”

Bons further argued it lone takes 1 contributing validator to see what whitethorn beryllium an OFAC-sanctioned transaction successful the canonical chain.

“This means that a precise tiny number of validators/miners tin antagonistic specified censorship implicit some ETH & BTC! Easily little than 1% tin forestall censorship,” helium explained.

Having attributed astir of this backlash to “Bitcoiners,” Bons besides argued that Ethereum with its caller PoS statement mechanics is “less vulnerable” and “far much secure” than Bitcoin nether proof-of-work (PoW) due to the fact that organization players are not economically incentivized to effort divided the chain.

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Ethereum developers person besides moving to amended Ethereum’s censorship absorption excessively — with Ethereum developer Terence Tsao of Prysmatic Labs connected Oct. 17 announcing that helium and chap developer Marius van der Wijden had begun gathering a solution to code the issue:

Together with the fable @vdWijden, we person started prototyping features to alteration the proposer to prime betwixt a section artifact and a builder artifact with the highest fee.
The archetypal measurement for censorship resistance️https://t.co/HyzUBZuB6V https://t.co/GGuAIegW5H

— terence.eth (@terencechain) October 17, 2022

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin precocious proposed a Partial Block Auction solution, wherever a artifact builder lone has the close to determine immoderate of the contents of the block.

Ethereum probe and improvement enactment Flashbots is besides looking to soon rotation retired its afloat decentralized and EVM-compatible artifact builder — Single Unifying Auctions for Value Expression (SUAVE) – successful bid to combat censorship issues.

— sassal.eth ️ (@sassal0x) October 15, 2022

On Aug. 8, the United States Treasury Department added much than 40 cryptocurrency addresses allegedly connected to arguable mixer Tornado Cash to the Specially Designated Nationals database of OFAC, effectively barring U.S. residents from utilizing the mixing service.