Quote from: dkincaid on March 23, 2017, 06:28:06 PM

Quote from: beltsniffer on March 23, 2017, 06:26:25 PM

Quote from: dkincaid on March 23, 2017, 06:05:40 PM

Quote from: ComputerGenie on March 23, 2017, 04:57:27 PM

Quote from: oawan on March 23, 2017, 04:41:21 PM

Sorry if this is explained somewhere else, but I saw the latest block was only like 90kb while most others hover around 990kb (and have ~1.5 btc more in transaction fees).

Why are some blocks like this?

~~Because when Kano takes his 0.9% (making for 1 transaction), it's not an empty block.~~

Sorry, but I don't understand what you said. I had the same question when I saw the "Block Reward" for the latest block was 12.6 something. Since finding a block is 12.5 BTC right now (I think) does it mean that there were no transaction fees in this block? Sorry if this is obvious to others, but I'm only a month into being a miner. Still trying to figure out how it all works.

Our block came only 6 seconds after the previous block. There likely weren't very many transactions out there to put into our block.

Aha! Thank you. I missed that detail. That makes perfect sense then.

I have actually a post on this in the thread here - I'm just saying this to mean that I have said it before, not that anyone needs to find it, I'll repeat it here.

That was the code changes to use core 0.13.x with segwit disabled.

On a block change, the block size is 88,888 - it then switches to the full size 988,888 with the work change.
Thus this block was found before the first work change, is the reason it was smaller.

It of course included our payout for 458455 also.

I struck out ComputerGenie's comment - it's complete nonsense.