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Topic: Strange Tiny blocks - page 2. (Read 2413 times)

legendary
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October 10, 2016, 02:48:55 PM
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Huh I've never seen a block with 1 transaction before. I'm sticking around to hear a good technical answer here  Tongue

Are these perhaps orphan blocks?

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/13987/what-happens-when-you-send-a-transaction-that-ends-up-in-an-orphaned-block-is-i
full member
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October 10, 2016, 02:44:04 PM
#1
Hi,

usually block sizes of mined blocks are near 1MB limit however from time to time strange blocks are mined with just few transactions. Any idea why?

Example:

In the middle of typical blocks:
 ~2000+ transactions
 ~ 990kb+

It quite stands out. Another question is could this be a possible way to attack block-chain? You do not need to have 50% of mining power but if you mine blocks without transaction on purpose you are slowing the network down.
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