📅 Original date posted:2012-05-29
📝 Original message:On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at exmulti.com> wrote:
> There appears to be some non-trivial mining power devoted to mining
> empty blocks.
In the last 2016 blocks, as I write this, there are only 35 1 txn blocks.
This is about 1.73%, which wouldn't be surprising just from timing
alone. Moreover, a fair amount (I didn't measure the percentage)
appear to be mined by Eligius— Luke does some clever pre-computation
of the hash tree for faster distribution right after new blocks.
Resources expended on fancy (and potentially risky) techno-economic
hacks to discourage empty blocks would probably be better spent
writing very fast transaction tree generating code.
Can we kill this thread now?
Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] /
npub1f2…crwet
2023-06-07 10:10:28
in reply to nevent1q…k5ve
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