Here again we get into a question of how much to baby the miners. The rougher the transaction sorting implementation they are gifted from nChain, the better of a screening mechanism it is and the more we'll see the effect where the intelligent, capable, on-the-ball, forward-thinking miners profit at the expense of those who are less so - and the network thereby gets relentlessly more intelligent. The more we scale, the more pronounced this winnowing and filtering effect becomes.
It's an issue of estimating Bitcoin's age in human years. 14? 18? 21? How much handholding is needed anymore, if any? More than handholding, I think we simply need clear and impactful explanation to the effect that Bitcoin is (i.e., the miners are) all grown up now and can&should now start to exploit each other's weaknesses even while cooperating. Coopetition. Some things will even become trade secrets.
If the mindset feels at all alien, get back into it by reading this:
https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/99q4ke/socalled_poison_blocks_what_greg_maxwell_called/
Crypto "journalists" will try to spin every instance of the network getting smarter as a misstep, every instance of the laggards getting slapped as the network getting slapped. It's the opposite, but it doesn't matter if the crypto community gets it. Business understands failure as part of success, and when it's a group in a Stackelberg contest this is even more applicable. At worst any PR issue delays things, but the increase in the eliteness of the infrastructure continues all the while. Eventually it is too solid to ignore.
Basically BSV miners are hitting the gym hard regularly, and especially moreso after Genesis, while the others are still having everything handed to them on a silver platter, never having to get up from their couches. The honeybadger may look haggard coming home on some days, but it is getting stronger and stronger and ultimately even at its weakest it will be orders of magnitude more capable and robust than any others.
I say again, it is like a child eating dirt. The dirt trains their immune system. Maybe they even catch a cold or get a minor infection. Meanwhile the rest are kept in a sterilized environment with no immune challenges.
Or again, it is like a lean business sharpening itself daily under competition vs. a slack, bloated, indulgent state-granted monopoly.
All these analogies work because all these systems (mining, immunity, economy) are Hayekian spontaneous orders. The same antifragilistic dynamics apply. Not only does adversity strengthen, it is ultimately the only possible way to strengthen. And when your system is a fluid group competition, adversity means mistakes, losses, orphans, bankruptcies - for individual miners, not the system.
If a few miners are not messing up routinely, one could argue that the best thing to do would be to give them bad advice for free and see which ones take the bait and lose money. As long as the overall level of understanding is high enough that this merely culls the fools. However, I suspect there will be plenty of errors and natural failures to keep up, without having to inject any traps for the hapless. The game becomes ever harder as we go, as it must if Bitcoin is to professionalize into the backbone of the world's money system and Internet.
