PANews, June 22 – According to Crypto.news, Bitcoin mined an empty block at height 954,352 on June 19, containing only the Coinbase transaction (miner reward) and no user transactions. The block was mined by SpiderPool, with an interval of about 62 seconds from the previous block. A fast block interval may cause miners to mine using only a Coinbase-based template before a more complete transaction template reaches the mining hardware, a situation that can produce a valid empty block.

Empty blocks have appeared in Bitcoin’s history but are now relatively rare. Mining pools may send empty templates because they are smaller and transmit faster, at the cost of forgoing transaction fee revenue from that block. A single empty block does not indicate a problem with the Bitcoin network and does not involve a breach of consensus rules. Only if empty blocks appear repeatedly would it potentially draw further attention to miners’ timing strategies.