A few thoughts about the unified mining pool (UMP) suggested in your link.
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UMP feels like a move to PoS with extra steps. The stackers/miners relationship becomes a complex way to transfer coinbase reward value to stackers. This is a Stack direction thing and well above my place in the Stacks community. (The second point is more valid to the conversation)
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Jude calls UMP a complex undertaking that wouldn’t see the light of day until after sBTC. The smoothing recommendation seems like a relatively simple solution that could resolve mining/stacking issues in the short term. “Look at 4 BTC blocks for mining and rewards calculations instead of 1.”
Any thoughts on smoothing transactions over Bitcoin blocks as even a quick fix to the Bitcoin MEV?