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In the last 24hrs approx 51% of the blocks added to the Ethereum blockchain were built by MEV relays that are regulated and censoring transactions as per OFAC regulations. This means that they will not relay transactions from tornado cash etc for inclusion in the blocks validators validate

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As of the last 100 blocks 56% were censored

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There are currently seven major mev-boost relays including Flashbots, BloXroute Max Profit, BloXroute Ethical, BloXroute Regulated, BlockNative, Manifold and Eden. Of the 7 available major relays only 3 do not censor according to OFAC compliance requirements. OFAC compliant relays will not include any transactions that interact with the Tornado Cash smart contract or other sanctioned wallet addresses as designated by OFAC.

Not all blocks built by OFAC compliant relays are censoring, however, all blocks built by OFAC compliant relays will censor when non-compliant transactions are broadcast to the network.

How is this determined:

OFAC compliancy list for MEV relays is here: https://github.com/remyroy/ethstaker/blob/main/MEV-relay-list.md

Why do Miners Validators use MEV boost relays?

Simply put, profit. Validators use MEV boost relays to "build" blocks that include a more profitable grouping of transactions as to maximise fee profit from the block.

Before the merge we were told no protocol level OFAC compliance would occur and any attempt to do so would end with validators being slashed.

https:/nitter.net/VitalikButerin/status/1559271315080679432

Vitalik himself said he would vote for: X



We're over 50% compliance now and validators seem happy to continue using Flashbots and other MEV relay services, as they're more profitable, despite knowing full well they are OFAC compliant and will not relay Tornado cash and other transactions.

This seems like OFAC compliance with extra steps. The validators themselves might not be doing it at a protocol level but they're actively using a secondary service to choose which transactions go into the blocks they validate.

Slashing any validator using OFAC compliant flashbots when?

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What is cakepay? Looks like you just buy a gift card with your crypto and then use the gift card at the vender.

It's... definitely an interesting way to solve the spending problem. Putting out a heat map of accepted vendors is pretty dishonest knowing it's just a gift card transfer service though.

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[*]CAKEPAY from their cake mobile wallets: https://cakewallet.com and https://monero.com (they're the same wallet, only difference is that the cake one is multi currency)
Currently only in USA with over 150,000 different locations accepting monero, here's a youtube video of techlore using it: https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=gFIg2ycs5-s
Europe and more are coming soon as well

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niceeee
i bought something in person with xmr for the first time a couple days ago, it wasnt cakepay (was from target so i can only do coincards) but it was a super easy experience
cakepay is faster right? there are places round where im at that take cakepays cards

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Yes! The gift card appears directly in Cake Wallet in only seconds.

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How does this compare to other providers?

Most other providers collect this information silently as listed in their privacy policies. Here are three common examples:

Coincards:
Online Identifiers: Geo location/tracking details, browser fingerprint, OS, browser name and version, and/or personal IP addresses.

Bitrefill:
Technical Data, (e.g. your IP, geolocation and browser fingerprint);

Bidali:
Online Identifiers: Geo location/tracking details, device identifiers, browser fingerprint, OS, browser name and version, and/or IP addresses used to access our Services.

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