Exactly what we need in the current mempool situation. 😑
Discussion
Unfortunate for the mempool but it’s fair play. Also consider holding a winning lottery ticket in your hand but not cashing it in because there’s a chance you could increase your winnings. But everyone else also has the same chance of winning, and claiming the prize before you do.
So it was you.
Mined just seconds after the prev block, both by Antpool. This just happens unfortunately.
If it happens significantly more on some pools than others (proportionally to their share of hashrate), it could indicate inefficiencies in the pool software, inefficiencies in their Bitcoin node configuration, OR a ‘selfish mining’ strategy… but it’s near impossible to prove the latter.
This phenomena is impossible to avoid completely afaik
Well it's possible to avoid by only starting to mine after you get the block template but a delay by 2s also means you could lose out on the block reward.
Even in a low fee environment, I think it can be much longer than 2sec. There is latency sending msgs between miners<>pool.
I heard wiz and others saying getblockemplate itself was taking >1min on default node configurations in recent fee environment. It runs fast on my MacBook, but haven’t tested my RasPi 🤔