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I'm curious if miners can choose which transactions to mine? I know that there are limits to the minimum size of a transaction fee (around 5400 satoshis) but I'm wondering if miners can ignore those limits for certain transactions. For example, if I gave a mining pool a list of addresses and offered an incentive to them to mine them even though the transaction was non-standard, could they do it?

Murch
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I know that there are limits to the minimum size of a transaction fee (around 5400 satoshis)

Actually, some transactions can sent for free.

For example, if I gave a mining pool a list of addresses and offered an incentive to them to mine them even though the transaction was non-standard, could they do it?

Absolutely. A miner can include any transaction that doesn't break network rules, for any reason.

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  • Then what happened if at the same time, one miner sends a block solved with transaction #1#2#3 and another sends a block solved with transaction #1#4#5: which one is the first to enter blockchain? Is the #1 transaction double confirmed?N – totalMongot Dec 24 '21 at 17:06