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Samourai Wallet, a Bitcoin mobile app wallet, has accused Ocean Mining, a decentralized BTC mining pool, of censoring “privacy enhancing transactions” on the blockchain network. The wallet provider claims that Ocean Mining enacted a policy of censoring Whirlpool Coinjoin transactions and BIP47 notification transactions. Samourai Wallet alleges that this decision by Ocean Mining excludes privacy-enhancing transactions and goes against the principles of the Bitcoin project.Ocean Mining’s top executive, however, has responded by stating that the issue was caused by a bug in Samourai’s system. The executive questions why Samourai exceeded the data carrier size and suggests that Samourai should fix the problem on their end to ensure privacy.This is not the first time that Ocean Mining’s CTO, Luke Dashjr, has been accused of trying to censor transactions on the BTC network. Previously, his attempt to end Ordinals Inscription was likened to censoring transactions on the blockchain network.