What is the reason the mempool is not cleared even when blocks are not full?
2 reasons:
1) some pools ignore lotsa transactions or worse, produce empty blocks on every network block change
2) segwit was a scam - it's aim was to centralise bitcoin with centrally controlled lightning networks
it didn't resolve the block size problem as can CLEARLY be seen early in the year
1. Is it in the code to ignore transactions? Cause iy is happening to all major pools which I dont see blocks utilizing all the space.
2. In your opinion, What is the next solution apart from Segwit and Lightning? Since big blocks are out of the question?
Many pools modify what they accept.
However, at the moment there aren't a lot of transactions waiting around.
Also very low fee or zero fee transactions are likely to not be passed around the network.
Aside: another simple problem is that the fee is completely unrelated to the amount of Bitcoin being spent.
Segwit isn't 4MB, it depends on if everyone changes what they are doing, trashes their wallets and changes to what core wants them to do.
Bigger blocks were the blatantly obvious solution.
Core bitcoin can handle up to 32MB with a minor change.
The concept of BIP100 was the best solution and got over 70% of miner support - but core didn't want it - they don't give a shit and literally despise miners - so they wouldn't code it - which is of course funny since mining is the basis of the design of bitcoin ... and bitcoin works without transactions, but doesn't work without miners.
I guess the answer is something other than decentralised bitcoin, which is what Corecoin is becoming.