Maybe the offer could become more appealing after a couple halvings. OP could also try raising the issue on github, hopefully Bitcoin Core could be updated to remedy this problem.
It's known and been discussed:
It said that it's not against the consensus rues but the transaction was indeed non-standard that's why nodes are rejecting it.
that is really messed up! every single documentation that i have ever seen has always said "it must not be compressed or it will not be mined". now i went back and checked the out, they are all are ambiguous about it!
take BIP143 for example:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0143.mediawiki#restrictions-on-public-key-typeAs a default policy, only compressed public keys are accepted in P2WPKH and P2WSH. Each public key passed to a sigop inside version 0 witness program must be a compressed key: the first byte MUST be either 0x02 or 0x03, and the size MUST be 33 bytes. Transactions that break this rule will not be relayed or mined by default.
from bitcoincore.com:
https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_wallet_dev/#creation-of-p2sh-p2wpkh-addressP2SH-P2WPKH uses the same public key format as P2PKH, with a very important exception: the public key used in P2SH-P2WPKH MUST be compressed, i.e. 33 bytes in size, and starting with a 0x02 or 0x03. Using any other format such as uncompressed public key may lead to irrevocable fund loss.
the orange parts are the ambiguity! why did they do this?!
It's not at all ambiguous, it states it exactly how it is.
It was the wish with segwit to prohibit the use of uncompressed keys. But there was a concern that problem's like OP's would arise from incompetent buggy software-- potentially involving really large funds losses. In an abundance of caution these the rule was made initially standardness-only. It has turned out to be less of an issue than had been feared (the OP's is the only sizable case I've heard of, at least).
The TX is valid. By default core will not accept it because of the mining fee. And it will not relayed.
But with 1 small tweak it will be accepted into the memepool of a node.
I have it sitting in my solo lottery node and on the very very very very [millions more very] small chance it hits the tx will be done.
Most of the bigger pools the OP contacted do not want to either alter their software / configuration because they are worried that it might cause other issues causing the block to be orphaned. Or, (AFAIK) they just never responded.
I personally figured that after the 12.5 to 6.25 halving that some pool would be interested. I was wrong.
Still the OP should keep asking pools for help. Sooner or later one of them might want to take a risk for an extra $10k
-Dave
