‘Not a single transaction on Ethereum has been stopped,’ details inside

ambcrypto.com:

In response to allegations that the network has grown more prone to censorship since the Merge, Ethereum supporters have argued that “not even a single” transaction has been blocked on the network.

Justin Bons, the founder and chief operating officer of Cyber Capital, stated that despite “what certain Bitcoiners are fraudulently saying,” not a single Ethereum transaction has been halted due to OFAC sanctions in a 19-part thread to his 29,100 followers on 17 October.

Bons was referring to recent allegations that claimed that since the Merge, Ethereum has become overly dependent on OFAC-compliant Miner Extractable Value (MEV)-Boost relays. 

blockchain solution development platform Labrys’ data shows that 51% of Ethereum blocks were OFAC compliant one month after the Merge as MEV-Boost relays retake the market.

On Twitter, individuals emphasized how the statistics mark a significant step towards censorship as more blocks come under scrutiny.

The crypto-fund manager said that despite the rise in OFAC-compliant MEV-Boost relays, censorship only occurs when developers refuse to build on non-compliant blocks, even if doing so would cause the chain to fork and split. He gave the following reasons,

“Even with 50% OFAC compliance, a non-compliant ETH TX will be confirmed within 30 sec! Compared to BTC’s more variable 10min!”

Bons added that only one contributing validator is necessary to include a transaction that might have been approved by OFAC in the canonical chain. He explained,

“This means that a very small minority of validators/miners can counter such censorship over both ETH & BTC! Easily less than 1% can prevent censorship.” 

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which is responsible for executing U.S. economic sanctions,