Some very strange things are going on in the world of Bitcoin mining.Antpool, one of the largest BTC mining pools in the world, is generating a high amount of blocks that contain almost no transaction data.The reason for this behavior is unclear, but it is apparent Antpool will not stop this practice anytime soon.But more empty blocks will also lead to network congestion, which is not a positive development.To fully comprehend what is going on, one must first know what an empty block on the is.Unlike virtually every other block in the blockchain, empty blocks only contain one transaction which allocates mining rewards.At the same time, generating empty blocks is not cheaper or quicker than full blocks, which makes it rather strange to see Antpool produce so many.Empty blocks often occur when a pool is conducting SPV mining, and often happens right after a full network block has been mined by a competing pool.But Antpool has beenn, which turns the traditional origin of these blocks on its head.

More importantly, the past few months saw fewer empty blocks mined on the network than before.But for some reason, Antpool is on a mission to rectify that situation by themselves.An empty network block is somewhat of an odd creature.On the one hand, is is a way to flood the network with useless data.However, it also evens out mining centralization in a way.ethereum buy irelandAny mining pool can easily prevent the generation of empty blocks if they wanted to, but Antpool is doing it on purpose for an unknown reason.bitcoin nebraskaOne Reddit user how an influx of empty blocks will increase Bitcoin transaction congestion.litecoin hardware asicAs we have seen several times over the past year, transactions tend to take longer before they received network confirmations on some occasions.bitcoin wealth distribution 2017

It is unclear if empty blocks actively contribute to these delays, though.It is equally possible this is due to an issue in the mining software running on Antpool’s servers.Them again, it is not the first time this mining pool is generating an unusual amount of empty blocks.For now, it remains anybody’s guess as to why this is happening, or what Antpool hopes to achieve by doing so.litecoin courseWelcome to Coinotron, first multicoin mining pool.bitcoin tinhteSolo mining is practically impossible.Only big miners with dozens of ASIC/GPU cards have a chance of generating block in a single day.Average miner wait months to find a block.Only reasonable alternative is to work together with other miners. to support that joint effort.We invite you to join Coinotron.Rules are simple: For each block generated in our pool we get certain amount of coins.

Next we split these coins between miners proportionally to amount of work delivered using various methods of reward distribution: PPS, RBPPS, PPLNS.Coinotron advantages: long history of stable payouts security is our priority, user passwords are hashed and salted we offer two-factor authentication ( Google Authenticator ) our servers are highly secured and DDOS protected website is protected against brute force and dictionary attacks automatic payouts every 120 minutes simple api Stratum support in all pools monitoring of workers activity charts How can you join us?Register here Create worker(s) Configure your mining application to point to our server - examples Start mining and ... Make coins with Coinotron Today we added PascalCoin pool.Just point your PASC miners to port 3348.More info in Help section.Mining PASC is FREE until March 15, 2017 !!!Today we added ZEC pool.Just point your ZEC miners to port 3346.

Mining ZEC is FREE until the end of 2016 !!!Today we added ETC ETH profit switch multiport.Just point your ETH miners to port 7777.Pool will continuously calculate current profitability of ETH, ETC and let you mine current best.We've added Ethereum Classic pool.You can use the same setup as in case of ETH mining and point your miners to port 3345.ETC Payouts will be enabled as soon as we are sure that everything works ok DAO wars soft-fork dilemma: We've updated pool's default ETH client to get 1.4.8 with option --dao-soft-fork.Also we introduced new port for miners not supporting soft-fork: 3391 We've added support for the newest implementation of ETH Stratum protocol created by NiceHash.Just use our standard Eth port 3344 and this NiceHash fork of Genoil's ethminer on your own rigs./nicehash/cpp-ethereum/releases /discussion/7346/bounty-for-ethereum-pool-operators-to-add-nicehash-compatibility#latest Ethereum RBPPS is now available in ETH Stratum pool.We are closing EXP pool.

Please withdraw your coins until the end of November We've added Expanse pool /index.php?topic=1173722.0 Today we have launched Ethereum pool.Port = 3342 More info you can find on our Help page.Vertcoin: Hard Fork at block 347000 Please download and use latest wallets and miners supporting new hashing algorithm Lyra2REv2: /wp/blog/ /r/vertcoin/comments/3feasg/official_new_lyra2rev2_miners/ Darkcoin has been renamed to DASH.https://www.dashpay.io/news/darkcoin-is-now-dash/ Today we introduced email confirmation for changing payout address.This should further enhance the safety of your coins.When you change payout address it will stay "locked" until you unlock it using special code sent to your email address.Viacoin has been added to merged mining with LTC.ATM VIA coins are increasing your profits by about 2%.New port on LTC pool for high speed ASIC miners ( hashrate > 20 MH/s ).Port number is 3834, share difficulty = 8192.If you are using fast ASIC miners like Titan, A2, Zeus or similar, please switch your miners to that port.

Vertcoin hard fork to Lyra2RE.Please prepare your miners and wallets: /blog/ Feathercoin 0.8.7.0 released.Our FTC pool will be switched to Neoscrypt mining after block 432000.Please update your wallet and miners.Scrypt miners won't work.Links to miners supporting Neoscrypt you will find on our Help page.LTC and DOGE merged mining is available on port 3334.All miners mining Litecoins are getting also dogecoins ( in mode 1.5% PPLNS ) DOGE miners, please switch to LTC merged mining on port 3334.You will earn much more than mining DOGE only.TRC has been pool removed.Please withdraw your TRC coins before June 30, 2014.Minimum Withdrawal Threshold has been lowered to 0.2 TRC Today we have added Darkcoin pool.Stratum only, port = 3341 FRC pool will be closed on 2014-05-10.Please withdraw your coins until 2014-06-30.You can switch your miners to this pool: http://freicoin.us/ Minimum Withdrawal Threshold has been lowered to 0.1 FRC.Today we have added VertCoin pool.