If miners can continue mining no matter if there are any transactions then what's the difference between central banks and miners.
And most importantly why bitcoin was designed in a way that many of miners do the work but only 1 wins and the works of others goes to waste?
I did not understand a little here. Do not all mining users make a profit? Of course to keep the blocks all the same It is necessary, but this is not the same as the central banks. Banks are primarily a control.
My argue is about the printing(mining) the digital money, if there is no outside force(protocol) to pressure the rules into the system then that system is a central point of deciding whether or not to mine empty blocks and keep growing the chain(securing previous blocks only) or take the extra money users paying as fee, but if processing transactions has a risk of an invalid or an orphan block then it's in their best broader interest to ignore TXs because 1or 1.5
BTC extra earned by fees is not worth to lose 12.5
BTC.
I always thought that the transactions actually produce(introduce) the mathematical challenge to the miners but now I see that miners can keep mining even for years without a single TX being in mempool.
While no one else is going to process users TXs since there is no central bank to have it's branches to do that only miners can transfer the funds in a sense but if they have been given the option to refuse then only the honest miners wanting bitcoin to thrive and stay operational will include TXs to the maximum limit size of the block and hostile miners would keep mining empty blocks to hurt the network (from users perspective) and care nothing for the end users and only wants to take their share of the market.
There is no more 1 CPU 1 vote because there is no CPU to begin with.
For being on topic, dude wtf are you talking about? this is not the perfect world where the masses work together all with one mind and heart to stop doing transactions without exception just for testing sake. you can keep your coins but you should know that you'll never be able to convince every body else doing the same. fortunately bitcoin is not like paper money like if you burn cash it's gone for ever but with btc you will always have the coins in the system.