hmm 2013.. blocks 0.5mb ... 5 pools
2017 blocks 0.999mb... 20+pools
Pools can be a Sybil attack from the same whale miners.
You are writing a lot of nonsense and I am not going to waste my time.
the orphan rate due to block data is a separate thing.
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if you have a block with 10 transactions or 1000 transactions. does not mean the PoW difficulty changes or the amount of hashes needed.
PoW difficulty has nothing to do what we are discussing.
You are not competent for me to have a discussion with.
i do like how you now stepped aside the PoW statement.
and are now trying to meander it to being about tx validation.
There was no meandering. I stated the relevant facts. You are meandering into incoherent nonsense.