I think you underestimate the flexibility these miners have and the fact that BTC is a hydra. When you cut 1 head off, 2 more grow back.
Check out what happened to Poolin back in 2022 they got mixed up with shitcoins and suspended payouts to miners. They use to……
Eh take it with a grain of salt. Miners within pools can point their hash anywhere and is very easy to change pools if 1 starts censoring transactions.……
Makes sense. They could syphon off payments and the receiver would never realize. Thankfully I think their long term incentives to collect fees from zaps are greater than a short term rug……
