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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Small Block
by
minerpumpkin
on 25/04/2015, 21:55:52 UTC
In the future after all the bitcoins have been released, wouldnt a small block such as this be extremely detrimental to the system? Suddenly your reward is based on the number of transactions, and no transaction = no reward...

Well there wouldn't be any harm for you to publish the block, nonetheless. The general thinking goes like this, though: In the future, when the block-rewards have been weaned off, the number of transactions is supposed to be high enough to account for a reasonable fee for the miners. In that case you would wait until enough transactions have accumulated until it is economically viable for you to publish the block. Waiting may actually make some sense in that case in the future.