Why do pools sometimes mine empty blocks? I just saw a 3.25 btc with no fee, so I guess its an empty block... Which must be on purpose, cuz ain't no way the mempool is empty.
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Ah, mempool.space has an explanation, but I'm not sure I understand it. Yeah I don't get it...
Idk
Its when they solve a block almost immediately after the last block, like seconds. I belive the template isn't filled out with transactions yet or something like that
Ohhh that makes sense. It wasn't clicking for me.
Correct because miners don't communicate instantaneously. They batch their work. And pool mining has a few more hops between nodes and miners which ultimately make pool mining more efficient for finding blocks.
I wonder... If there's enough latency to cause empty blocks, will that alone force pools to be smaller when the coinbase is gone? Or low enough that fees are most of the revenue