I've seen several single transaction blocks with same size and name $ amount the past few days. Often they appear right after AntPool finds a real looking block. This can't be right.
364026 14 minutes 1 $ 6,720.25 AntPool 0.2
If AntPool is collecting on these and in turn, paying us on these blocks, I would imagine the other pools would not be happy.
Is this the outdated software problem?
No, that's a separate "problem" (that some pools don't think is a problem) of creating empty blocks, blocks without transactions. When the purpose of a block is to handle transactions and a pool solves a block that contains 0 transactions, to me that's a problem.
You need to be careful how you word that.
"a pool solves a block that contains 0
new transactions"
Luke likes to argue about how it's ok because you are confirming
old transactions with an empty block using his word games as usual.
It's not ok (yes as should be obvious I agree it's not ok) but his word games will cause grief if you miss technicalities, he likes to claim that everyone says the non-obvious that he wants when they say something, not the obvious that he doesn't want, even though we know what is being said. Yes he's a griefer.
Funny that you mention technicalities, because after I posted that I thought, "Well, an empty block really has 1 tx, the coinbase tx that generates 25
BTC, but I'm going to leave it as 0 because everyone should know what I mean."
So yes, when I wrote "contains 0 transactions" I should have wrote "contains 0 new transactions, excluding the coinbase generation of 25
BTC", but who has time to type all that out?
