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This is completely normal in the process of mining withe current state of the stratum protocol

After a block was found you need some seconds to build a new block template and transmit it to all the miners. In the meantime miners are using an empty block template so that the asics don’t have to stop working. If a block is found in this small amount of time an empty block will be added to the chain.

It’s not the result of mean miners who don’t want to add transactions to the block. It’s a technical problem that will be fixed with the new stratum v2 protocol
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TKay 1y ago

They can choose not to use the empty template and wait 1 second.

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rieger_san 1y ago

This doesn’t make sense! If I find a block while my miner is in idle mode with an empty block template I add the block, otherwise I would give up a block reward of 6.25 bitcoin.

Would you say no when someone offers you 6.25 bitcoin for free? Don’t think so!