That mining pool is creating a lot of BSV blocks with no transactions in them, other than giving themselves the mining reward. I’ve seen them get 3 or more in a row which will push your first confirmation out 30+ minutes if your timing is unlucky.
Post by twetch#14259
Interesting. I did not know that went on. I imagine it's because they can construct the block faster increasing the odds of winning the block reward? Huh. Wild. Thinking that all thru is a cool exercise.
What the chain says
- Block
- 661 989
- Time
- 2020-11-19T17:44:03Z
- Signer
- 1CQ1EnzXyu8enLGvXdYbcNFn41Mbi4zi2H
- App
- twetch
- Type
- post
- Content type
- text/plain
- Name in tx
- twetch#14259
Fields the transaction did not carry are omitted. Open the payload to see the bytes as stored.
Signed by
1CQ1EnzXyu8enLGvXdYbcNFn41Mbi4zi2H VerifiedReplies (2)
They use BSV for merged mining to support their own network I believe. They choose not to include transactions in blocks.
I’m not entirely well informed on the subject, but you can read more here: https://hathor.network/get-started/
They have a fair amount of hash which gives them good odds, but for some reason they don’t include any transactions, except the block reward TX. Empty block still adds a confirmation to previous blocks but doesn’t help you if your TX is still unconfirmed.