pm VS rpc-endpoint

Here: https://github.com/flashbots/pm

In theory you can do this now by exploiting front-running bots, see https://github.com/flashbots/pm/issues/24

Front run + back run is sandwich. Front running has also been called miner extractable value. This is now called maximal extractable value.

You may want to look a little further, or not.

https://github.com/flashbots/pm

'... mitigating the negative externalities of Maximal Extractable Value ...'

2: sponsored transactions. use flashbots to send transactions directly to miners using a third party address as payment.

I know someone who runs a MEV-Bot, i.e. scanning the mempool for opportunities and bribing miners to include his arbitrage-tx into the chain via FlashBots.

> “Less trust, more truth.”

What a neat platitude that means absolutely nothing. As a society, over, oh I don't know, like 5000 years, we figured out the the best way to enforce truth is via some sort of centralized institution: the court of law.

> They could, right. They sort of do—there’s the star thing that you can only do once per day. But guess what? They're a profit-motivated company. So if you pay Tinder enough, you can just send as many stars as you want.

Wait, crypto miners aren't profit-motivated? Maybe we should introduce Mr. Wood to flashbots[1] -- a "sub-network" of Ethereum miners (a fork of geth) who's entire purpose for existing is front-running. Truth as long as you can pay for it -- got it. Web3 is end-stage capitalism and we've been down this road in the early 1900s. Yawn.

[1] https://github.com/flashbots/pm

You might want to look at their Flashbot Protect RPC. So, you might want to look at this one: https://github.com/flashbots/rpc-endpoint

Ethereum toolset alteady complying with OFAC https://github.com/flashbots/rpc-endpoint/blob/main/server/ofacblacklist.go

Has the Geth team ever considered or been pressured to add blacklist measures similar to those we are currently trying to remove from flashbots? What is the Geth team's stance on node-level blacklists?

how about check the flashbots github and come back with that same energy. i will be calm when everyone else is not, and not calm when they are (like now)

MEVBoost/Flashbot has already blocked all Tornado Cash smart contract addresses: https://github.com/flashbots/rpc-endpoint/pull/90

For the record, it feels like we've all got confused about the MEV-Boost OFAC Blacklist stuff. The changes, and proposed reversion - is on an unrelated repo https://github.com/flashbots/rpc-endpoint. These are RPC endpoints. MEV-Boost itself has no such proposals, and the only discussion i can find in the issues list is a long discussion of maintaining censorship resistance, https://github.com/flashbots/mev-boost/issues/215