@BOMBERuss 30 September 2022 more from that month

About 45% of the blocks in the #Ethereum network are verified through bots that comply with US sanctions, said Lakhan Fini, CEO of the #blockchain company Labrys, in an interview with Cointelegraph. According to him, the data of reports stating that only 25% of such blocks are already outdated, and at the moment, probably every second block is subject to censorship. Feeney explained that an increasing number of #ETH validators are starting to use centralized MEV-boost relay flashbots, which are most often located in the United States and "censor certain transactions in the blocks they create, especially transactions from Tornado Cash." #MEV bots are centralized software designed to extract maximum recoverable value (MEV). Such programs have become popular among validators because they effectively select those transactions that can bring the greatest income. On September 28, Labrys released the MEV Watch tool, which shows which bots adhere to the sanctions of the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (#OFAC). According to Fini, in the case of strict censorship, bots "discard" blocks with transactions associated with sub-sanctioned addresses, which makes it impossible to make these transactions into the blockchain, no matter how high a commission is assigned. These conclusions are confirmed by a study published on September 28, which states that out of more than 19 thousand blocks tested using Mev-Boost Relay bots, none included a Tornado cash #transaction. #CryptoCurrency