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Is there a minimum number of transactions in a block?
The 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results Are In
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Planned maintenance scheduled April 17/18, 2019 at 00:00UTC (8:00pm US/Eastern)What is the motivation for miners to include all recent transactions in a block?How Is Block Assembled?How are unconfirmed transactions divided into different blocks?Transaction inclusion into blockHow do I reward a miner who made a block I like?Is the probability of generating invalid blocks reduced by mining transactions unknown to others?What is the incentive for including transactions in a block?How bitcoin distributed to more than 1 miner as bitcoin-mining lottery only choose 1 miner?collecting block reward and transaction feesReward in case of fork
What encourages Bitcoin miners to include lots of transactions in blocks in the Bitcoin blockchain?
It seems like you could quickly add a block with just a single transaction and get the block reward from it.
Is there some incentive for miners to include lots of transactions in blocks?
mining-reward transaction-selection
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What encourages Bitcoin miners to include lots of transactions in blocks in the Bitcoin blockchain?
It seems like you could quickly add a block with just a single transaction and get the block reward from it.
Is there some incentive for miners to include lots of transactions in blocks?
mining-reward transaction-selection
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It is no quicker to mine a block with one transaction, compared to a block with many transactions.
– chytrik
Apr 8 at 1:07
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What encourages Bitcoin miners to include lots of transactions in blocks in the Bitcoin blockchain?
It seems like you could quickly add a block with just a single transaction and get the block reward from it.
Is there some incentive for miners to include lots of transactions in blocks?
mining-reward transaction-selection
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What encourages Bitcoin miners to include lots of transactions in blocks in the Bitcoin blockchain?
It seems like you could quickly add a block with just a single transaction and get the block reward from it.
Is there some incentive for miners to include lots of transactions in blocks?
mining-reward transaction-selection
mining-reward transaction-selection
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It is no quicker to mine a block with one transaction, compared to a block with many transactions.
– chytrik
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It is no quicker to mine a block with one transaction, compared to a block with many transactions.
– chytrik
Apr 8 at 1:07
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It is no quicker to mine a block with one transaction, compared to a block with many transactions.
– chytrik
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It is no quicker to mine a block with one transaction, compared to a block with many transactions.
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A block may contain only one transaction: the coinbase transaction. However, the time it takes to mine a block is not affected by the number of transactions in that block, so mining blocks with fewer transactions does not benefit the miner. On the other hand, miners collect fees from the transactions they include in a block, so by including more transactions in a block, they may collect more fees.
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The answer is one, the coinbase transaction.
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A block may contain only one transaction: the coinbase transaction. However, the time it takes to mine a block is not affected by the number of transactions in that block, so mining blocks with fewer transactions does not benefit the miner. On the other hand, miners collect fees from the transactions they include in a block, so by including more transactions in a block, they may collect more fees.
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A block may contain only one transaction: the coinbase transaction. However, the time it takes to mine a block is not affected by the number of transactions in that block, so mining blocks with fewer transactions does not benefit the miner. On the other hand, miners collect fees from the transactions they include in a block, so by including more transactions in a block, they may collect more fees.
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A block may contain only one transaction: the coinbase transaction. However, the time it takes to mine a block is not affected by the number of transactions in that block, so mining blocks with fewer transactions does not benefit the miner. On the other hand, miners collect fees from the transactions they include in a block, so by including more transactions in a block, they may collect more fees.
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A block may contain only one transaction: the coinbase transaction. However, the time it takes to mine a block is not affected by the number of transactions in that block, so mining blocks with fewer transactions does not benefit the miner. On the other hand, miners collect fees from the transactions they include in a block, so by including more transactions in a block, they may collect more fees.
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The answer is one, the coinbase transaction.
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The answer is one, the coinbase transaction.
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