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That's because last I checked block time has nothing to do with number or transactions, or even MBs of transactions, it's purely to do with hash rate and mining difficulty. Increasing hash rate decreases the block-time, but then the difficulty adjusts every two weeks to effectively return the block time time to 10 minutes.
Are you really lecturing me on this?
You completely missed the point of my remark.
It was about the record number of traction in a day, if in a day you have only 120 blocks it will be nearly impossible to make a record in the number of transactions even if you cherry-pick them by size and deny sanctions over 10 inputs/outputs. At the same time because when there were 170 blocks mined there were only huge transactions mainly consolidation because of the low fees, you couldn't break it either.
So yeah, block time does directly influence the number of tx in a day, and no, it's not a perfect correlation to the actual hash rate, and quite a bit of luck and variance. For example in the last 24 hours, we only have only
124 blocks mined, you think 15% of the miners have shut down their gears cause it's Sunday?
even if more transactions in the mempool means that miners get slightly higher rewards from the transaction fee, it's pretty negligible compared to the 6.25 BTC reward per block of transactions.
Really? Last block mined:
https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000035434a80dd8e575f113f6bde1f42d5a2640e280d01ac5Total fees 2.106 BTC$60,676
Subsidy + fees 8.356 BTC$240,751
Negligible???