[meltedcapacitor]

Reputation?

Folks will stop sending them their TX if they never come out in blocks, but competing copy TX with someone else's address systematically do. So that they do their job is, to a degree, verifiable.

It's a small community who all know each other, so antisocial behaviour can be punished using traditional village politics technology.

[danuker]

Well, the reputation I now perceive is "abysmal", because everything is served through Cloudflare.

That means Cloudflare can capture or sell the advantage also, unnecessarily.