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 🥲
Discussion
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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.
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