Yet another example of SPV mining failing where Bravo Mining would not.
Blocks 408446 and 408447 were found within seconds of each other - both mined by Antpool. Block 408446 had 2527 transactions and a value of 25.66947001
BTC. Nice big, fat block. Oh, by the way, the 0.66947001
BTC went directly into Bitmain's pockets, not the miners'. Had the block been mined here? The miners would have received those fees.
Block 408447 included no transactions but the coinbase. What would have happened had that next block been mined on my pool?
2016-04-22 14:16:04 UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000004778f2511886c12cb4bbd294488ef384e3a75ea2471e0b0 height=408446 log2_work=84.532203 tx=124056675 date=2016-04-22 14:14:58 progress=1.000000 cache=52.5MiB(12838tx)
2016-04-22 14:16:04 UpdateTip: 5 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version
2016-04-22 14:16:04 CreateNewBlock(): total size 680925 txs: 683 fees: 10603787 sigops 2581
2016-04-22 14:16:04 UpdateTip: new best=00000000000000000204dcb3c5917c48573af30dd332139132138473cdc369b7 height=408447 log2_work=84.532243 tx=124056676 date=2016-04-22 14:15:59 progress=1.000000 cache=52.5MiB(12839tx)
2016-04-22 14:16:04 UpdateTip: 5 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version
2016-04-22 14:16:04 CreateNewBlock(): total size 680925 txs: 683 fees: 10603787 signs 2581
That's right, 683 transactions and another 0.10603787
BTC in fees going to the miners.
Stop mining on pools that are bad for Bitcoin, and bad for miners. Mine on pools that do the right thing.