Bitcoin Developers: Could you take a look at this Dogecoin issue/exploit?

[MilagrosSantos]

Hi everybody

There is currently an interesting discussion in the Dogecoin Github.

I think some of the developers are being a bit prematurely dismissive, and we would benefit if people not related to Dogecoin development but with experience with Bitcoin development/blockchain gave their opinion.

Can any of you take a look?

https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/issues/2585

Thanks

[Syke]

There's nothing "interesting" about the thread. Go to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0 if you want to discuss it more.

[ranochigo]

This is not an exploit. It is possible to mine empty blocks and that is completely normal. In fact, miners on Bitcoin can very well just start mining only empty blocks and the only expense would be the loss from collection of the TX fees.

Empty blocks are not necessarily an exploit at all, but selfish mining can be a problem. That would be a scenario where miners are intentionally withholding their chain to gain an advantage but empty blocks are not characteristic of that. Nothing should be done into it, or to enforce non-empty blocks for that matter.