What's happening in blockchain?

[isvicre]

New found blocks don't add any transactions. I'm waiting for confirmation for more than an hour. What's happening?

[isvicre]

After these blocks things go back to normal but I wonder why Slush and Antpool didn't include any transactions to their found blocks.

[USB-S]

It went back to normal. But they claimed the BTC25 rewards didn't they?

[kano]

They do that regularly.
You shouldn't mine on pools that do that ... AntPool, F2Pool, Eligius, Slush, others ...

[joinal]

What does that mean, they do "that"regularly?

[isvicre]

It went back to normal. But they claimed the BTC25 rewards didn't they?

Yes.

They do that regularly.
You shouldn't mine on pools that do that ... AntPool, F2Pool, Eligius, Slush, others ...

I agree. We shouldn't use them. They have bad impact on transaction flow. I just realized this happened today more than any other day.

[USB-S]

It went back to normal. But they claimed the BTC25 rewards didn't they?

Yes.

They do that regularly.
You shouldn't mine on pools that do that ... AntPool, F2Pool, Eligius, Slush, others ...

I agree. We shouldn't use them. They have bad impact on transaction flow. I just realized this happened today more than any other day.

Is it because the scale of these pools? do we have any other means to fight this other than mining in another pool?

[shanerc563]

I am reading this and as being newer to understanding the mining pools and mining, could someone please explain to me what this means and why it happens like this.  I do nto completely understand and thought that all blocks were public domain.  I am not understanding why this would happen.  Thank you in advance.

[os2sam]

This thread has all you need to know about 1 transaction blocks and more.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1085800.msg11577559#msg11577559

[hpingping]

It went back to normal. But they claimed the BTC25 rewards didn't they?

Yes.

They do that regularly.
You shouldn't mine on pools that do that ... AntPool, F2Pool, Eligius, Slush, others ...

I agree. We shouldn't use them. They have bad impact on transaction flow. I just realized this happened today more than any other day.

very much agree wich

[makcik]

I have myself faced this problem twice. Once in blockchain and once in Coinbase. Actual reason behind this is that confirmation is taking long as mainly you are sending bitcoins to a different wallet provider. (E.g- bitcoin to Coinbase).
This usually takes some good amount of time in some cases. In some cases it happens in a snap. Whereas others, it can take up to a day or few days too. There's no actual reason told by blockchain about it. But, it's just for adding more security for transactions to other provider's wallet.

[notlist3d]

So in doing this do they have a more likely shot at getting block reward?  If so how much of a advantage is it to do this?

It is interesting I'm surprised they are sending out blocks with 1 transaction.  Kinda defeats the entire point of the block if it does not carry transactions.

[-ck]

This has been discussed at length on this topic before as os2sam has pointed out:

This thread has all you need to know about 1 transaction blocks and more.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1085800.msg11577559#msg11577559

Executive summary: The 1 transaction blocks are a poor workaround for slow pool software and miners should not support pools that do this.

Let's not ask all the same questions all over again in a new thread please.

/locked