The number of empty blocks in the network Ethereum increased by 637 percent before hardforum
Source:In the last three months the number of miners empty blocks of Ethereum has increased dramatically. It happened after the developers announced the exact date for the hard forks .
According to the senior scientific employee of the company CoinFi Alex Svanevik, the reason for this was the growing popularity of so-called spyware extraction. This is indicated by the fact that the increase in the number of empty blocks occurs while stable rates of cases processed per day units and average time between them.
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Empty blocks are formed when unscrupulous miners mined block, but not process transactions in it. The situation is exacerbated by the growth in the number of such participants in pools that are selectively publish information on the extracted blocks. In the result, other users have to waste power in vain.
Researchers from the research company CoinFi note that most of these violations occur in pools F2Pool (ranked second in the world in total power production) and Etherdig.
F2Poll and Etherdig blocks mined without any transactions in them for their own benefit, analysts say. According to him, for the last three months the number of empty units rose 15 percent, this means that the revenue of the companies increased by the same amount. With Sep, the total number jumped 637 percent.
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Such actions are the major players pose a serious threat to the coin, and for the rest of the miners. If the pools will continue in the same spirit, the price for gas will rise sharply. Many smaller players prefer to not get the Ethereum, and other coins, said the study.
According CoinFi, Etherdig since mid-July has produced more than 1250 empty blocks. It's about 3750 ETH amounting to more than 862 $ 500. No need to explain why such actions are unscrupulous miners have caused concerns among community members Ethereum. Because the network processes the coins 5800 units every day, which contains about 540 thousand transactions.
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