Why is mining empty blocks not a valid decision miners or pools can make? Devs decide what is a good use or am i misunderstanding what you said at HCPP22?
Two pieces of content where I lay out this view here:
https://bitcointv.com/w/d577b95c-a237-4d2d-8c6b-c7a353321305
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Mining empty blocks is disincentivized through transaction fees, so would only be done with other incentives (like a government subsidized pool to attack the network, or the government themselves attacking the network.)
There is no “legitimate” reason to mine empty blocks unless there are 0 transactions in the mempool.
Thank you for responding. I understood that mining empty blocks is not economical (in probably all cases) but a developer decision what is good or bad isn't better imho. And force-feeding "updates" (from devs who can be, i suspect, easily brought to service from [entity]) to users like in the case of monero isn't a viable solution for me.
I'm not sure your point, devs have no control over blocks being empty or not.
decentralized pools via p2pool - /censoring or mining empty blocks/
Devs provide sw which censors miners mining empty blocks.
Anyway i don't agree with many other statements provided at your presentation. But since it do not hold monero bags i do not really care. ☮️✌️