***I am kind of a beginner when it comes to mining, but heres my thoughts on the matter.
A few sources on Twitter have said that BSV has been under attack today by malicious miners mining empty blocks. I have heard various numbers of between 70 and 90% of hashrate. A quick glance at https://whatsonchain.com/ show that all blocks not mined by Gorillapool, taal.com or qdlink contain only 1 or 2 transactions. These empty blocks seem to be 75% of the blocks coming in. So who is it and why?
Heres what I know: Blocks are coming in fast, most under 5m. I am noticing that even the non malicious miners are only netting between .01 and .5 BSV per block. (about 50 cents to $25) Way below their yearly average of closer to 5 BSV.
(They like to brag about their high tx fee to subsidy ratio) The tx fees average per block today for taal.com was about $4.53. The block subsidy is currently about $304.63. Basically, malicious miners are only losing less than 2% attacking the network as opposed to mining honestly.
And doing either (BSV mining or BSV attacking) right now might be more profitable for some BTC miners who don't have the best electricity prices and are dealing with low BTC prices, yet an ATH difficulty. Getting paid to stick it to Faketoshi? Call it a win-win!
If anyone knows anything about the situation, I would love to hear about it. The BTC people aren't really talking about whats happening, just trolling BSV'ers that its happening. The BSVers are trying to pretend nothing is wrong.
Thoughts?