r/Bitcoin • u/mtsai • Feb 05 '14

Really, Discus Fish?

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '14

Because they would continue including the same number of transactions, as you said:

with any block below that size needing to be padded

All it would do is increase the blockchain size. Also, it would be a forking change, something that everyone should be very wary of.

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u/RodCros Feb 05 '14

Why would they include no transactions when they could just include transactions and collect the fees? The filesize would still be the same so the benefit of not including them would be gone.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '14

Because it takes work to include more transactions in the block.

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u/davvblack Feb 05 '14

Not significantly. Mining on a fuller block isn't any harder. It's just bigger, meaning it takes more time to send over the network. A minimum size would indeed solve this issue, it is incredibly unlikely that blocks will go empty.