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At times like this when fee is high (yes 40sar/vb is still high I think)

Seeing empty block mined on mempool just hit different 🥲
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The Fishcake (nostr.build) 2y ago

🐶🐾🫡

Why are there empty blocks? ADVANCED

When a new block is found, mining pools send miners a block template with no transactions so they can start searching for the next block as soon as possible. They send a block template full of transactions right afterward, but a full block template is a bigger data transfer and takes slightly longer to reach miners.

In this intervening time, which is usually no more than 1-2 seconds, miners sometimes get lucky and find a new block using the empty block template.

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noerms 2y ago

🙏 just asked myself this question today

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The Fishcake (nostr.build) 2y ago

If you click on the empty block and scroll you will get all the answers. 🐶🐾🫡

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noerms 2y ago

Cooooooool 🐺

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Pleb⚡ 2y ago

Yes. I think there has been a proposed mechanism to prevent empty block being mined though. Not sure how that goes and whether the proposed solution is actually feasible and make sense