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Suggestion: Transactionless blocks are redundant and encourage unneeded mining

Simple Solution: Force a requirement that at least 1 transaction must be in each block

Problems:

• A- It may need to be if a transaction is in the last n blocks, where n is number of confirmations required, to ensure network quality of service
• B- Miners can just create random transactions - this is a non issue once a move to fee only remuneration has been made

Conclusion: Transactionless blocks are not viable and any suggested implementation would be susceptible to problem B.

Agree?