Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question. However, there is something about this I don't really understand.
As I understand it the part of the problem is that it is possible to predict when you get to it if a given block will reward with an anomaly (1 coin). And if a block is not going to give an anomaly then don't bother to mine it?
However, surely every block has to be mined? You can't just say "oh, block 21,234 has no reward, I'll skip that one and mine block 21,235 instead" Don't you have to wait for block 21,234 to be mined, before you can move onto the next one?
Moreover, the zero reward blocks may also reward with mining/transaction fees *and* they will include transactions that have to be added to the blockchain.
So all the blocks have to be mined in order anyway? So is it *really* a problem?
I expect I have missed something crucial somewhere, so happy to be corrected ...
As I understand it the part of the problem is that it is possible to predict when you get to it if a given block will reward with an anomaly (1 coin). And if a block is not going to give an anomaly then don't bother to mine it?
However, surely every block has to be mined? You can't just say "oh, block 21,234 has no reward, I'll skip that one and mine block 21,235 instead" Don't you have to wait for block 21,234 to be mined, before you can move onto the next one?
Moreover, the zero reward blocks may also reward with mining/transaction fees *and* they will include transactions that have to be added to the blockchain.
So all the blocks have to be mined in order anyway? So is it *really* a problem?
I expect I have missed something crucial somewhere, so happy to be corrected ...