Wow, thanks for the summary stats, have no idea where to see daily totals for these empty ones..

But yeah, 14 empty blocks today - 14k tx - 14MB mempool backlog, it pretty much matches straight up with the backlog and empty blocks possible tx content had they been filled to the brim..

I guess nothing motivates some people but greed..

What is a small miner to do about these large pools to get them to "behave", nothing I can think of anyways..

Sad and ironic.. They are shooting themselves in the leg as well if the network gets too clogged up their proceeds go down as the price might fall as well.. Not too forward thinking these chinese pool operators have to say..

Not to mention the ethics concerned, but I guess each person has his/her own..