Strange.
Why would the largest miner on the network be stifling the capacity we already have? The owner of AntMiner claims to support the on-chain transaction model. This news seems to contradict that position.
Topic: Something Odd Is Happening at Bitcoin’s Largest Mining Pool Read more: http://w - page 2. (Read 1442 times)
March 05, 2017, 12:53:28 PM
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Something Odd Is Happening at Bitcoin's Largest Mining Pool
Blocks on the Bitcoin network have been increasingly full lately , except for some of the ones mined by AntPool , which is the largest mining pool on the network . In the past 24 hours from the time this article was written, every non- empty block mined by someone other than AntPool was practically full of transactions, nearly up to the 1 MB limit.
Let's take a closer look at the details regarding these smaller blocks.
Recently, AntPool has been mining a number of blocks with sizes of around 99 KB, 369 KB and 860 KB. There were dozens of blocks mined around these specific sizes during the month of February. During the times these blocks were mined, everyone else on the network was filling blocks with transactions up to the 1 MB capacity limit.
In addition to the non-full blocks mined by AntPool, the mining pool also created 16 empty blocks in the month of February. The total amount of transaction capacity lost by the network during this time as a result of AntPool's small blocks is not difficult to estimate. Numbers shared by BitFury's Alex Petrov show AntPool's average mined block size in February was around 100 KB less than other mining pools of comparable size.
Blocks on the Bitcoin network have been increasingly full lately , except for some of the ones mined by AntPool , which is the largest mining pool on the network . In the past 24 hours from the time this article was written, every non- empty block mined by someone other than AntPool was practically full of transactions, nearly up to the 1 MB limit.
Let's take a closer look at the details regarding these smaller blocks.
Recently, AntPool has been mining a number of blocks with sizes of around 99 KB, 369 KB and 860 KB. There were dozens of blocks mined around these specific sizes during the month of February. During the times these blocks were mined, everyone else on the network was filling blocks with transactions up to the 1 MB capacity limit.
In addition to the non-full blocks mined by AntPool, the mining pool also created 16 empty blocks in the month of February. The total amount of transaction capacity lost by the network during this time as a result of AntPool's small blocks is not difficult to estimate. Numbers shared by BitFury's Alex Petrov show AntPool's average mined block size in February was around 100 KB less than other mining pools of comparable size.
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