Re: ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It
It's true that latency can have a small effect on block mining rewards (higher probability of orphaned), but should not impact the number of transactions that are known to the mining node (except for those that arrive in the last moment before a block is found), so it cannot explain these low numbers.
I agree. We're seeing a 40% difference in the number of transactions included per block. Unless the Great Firewall is picking out transactions, I don't see how this is possible. One explanation is that ASICMiner has a custom filter to decide which transactions to include.The custom filter is a good explanation. It's the only one I can think of actually. Great firewall appart...
Anybody has feelings, or even better, statistics on the type of transactions included in their blocks, in particular on their category (free or not), and the fee per KB (for the non-free), and their priority?
I think I saw something along that lines recently, don't remember if it was here or the speculation thread, or about AM at all.
EDIT: That would make a good official question for friedcat! I'm really curious about these filter policies and their motivations, if they do exist.