how many transactions to include in a block?

[blockhunter00]

What incentives do miners have to include more than one transaction in a block?
After all, it costs at least a little bit of computing power to compute the Merkle Trees.
And this computing power can not be used to compute the nonce...

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[NeuroticFish]

What incentives do miners have to include more than one transaction in a block?
After all, it costs at least a little bit of computing power to compute the Merkle Trees.
And this computing power can not be used to compute the nonce...

For each transaction included in a block, the miners receive the transaction fee the sender has added to that transaction.
For example, for block 537754 the tx fees were 0.21486119BTC

[deviniter]

Block is a number of transactions that have been confirmed and shared in the Bitcoin public ledger. Initially able to accommodate up to 36MB. But to reduce ddos attacks on the network, then it is limited to 1MB.

With this limitation, miners can mine Bitcoin up to 1MB. Blocks larger than 1MB means invalid. So why is this maximum limit needed?

- To maintain consensus
- Avoid Centralization of Pool
- Make Full Nodes More Worthy

[ksupriya94]

Miners will get more transaction fees and a block contains more than 500 transactions average and average size of a block is around 1 mb.

[BitcoinHodler]

another important factor that is not mentioned here is the fact that if they start producing empty blocks they will end up damaging bitcoin more than they can earn from it, and in the long run if the backlog starts to grow the value of bitcoin will fall and they will also lose money.
and as a miner when you invest in equipment you want to have your investment continue giving returns to you as long as possible, you don't want to kill your own profit.

[Nurshazwani]

The average transaction is at least 250 bytes and the average block contains more than 500 transactions. Source: Mastering Bitcoin Chapter 7, page 164.

https://blockchain.info/de/charts/n-transactions-per-block

[mocacinno]

Block is a number of transactions that have been confirmed and shared in the Bitcoin public ledger. Initially able to accommodate up to 36MB. But to reduce ddos attacks on the network, then it is limited to 1MB.

With this limitation, miners can mine Bitcoin up to 1MB. Blocks larger than 1MB means invalid. So why is this maximum limit needed?

- To maintain consensus
- Avoid Centralization of Pool
- Make Full Nodes More Worthy

Technically, since segwit, a block can theoretically be 4Mb (on disk), however 3Mb is reserved for the witness data in order to keep backwards compatibility for the "old" nodes that still have the 1Mb limit. Offcourse, in reality, a block will almost never reach the 4Mb limit, but will probably be very close to the 1Mb limit after you disregard the witness data.

The average transaction is at least 250 bytes and the average block contains more than 500 transactions. Source: Mastering Bitcoin Chapter 7, page 164.

https://blockchain.info/de/charts/n-transactions-per-block

I haven't done the math, but my gut feeling tells me that if you'd only take the average amount of transactions per block for the last year, you'll get a lot more than 500 tx/block on average... Offcourse, if you take the all-time average, it'll probably be a lot lower (possibly around the ~500tx/block range... idk)