I was thinking about what I could write a small post about, to contribute a bit of value, and suddenly, while checking the mempool, I came across an empty block.
This happens because miners are incentivized to mine blocks as quickly as possible, and sometimes they mine a block before receiving any transactions to include. When this happens, the block remains empty.
By mining empty blocks, miners continue to produce the coin generation transaction, also known as the coinbase transaction, which keeps Bitcoin steady on its path to reaching the 21 million Bitcoin issued.
Did you know that empty blocks existed? What's your opinion about it?
I'll leave you the image of the recently mined empty block number 844144.