The original link: https://braiins.com/blog/why-pools-mine-empty-blocks-and-how-stratum-v2-fixes-this

The original article was published on August 18, 2020

This article is about 2100 words and takes about 7 minutes to read.

Although hole-block mining is becoming increasingly rare, technical limitations prevent it from disappearing altogether. Let’s take a look at Stratum V2.

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Why are fewer empty blocks being mined now?

Why do mining pools still occasionally hollow out chunks?

Stratum V2 How to eliminate hollow block mining?

More information about Stratum V2

If you would like to learn more about the issues in the mining industry and Stratum V2’s solutions, please check out our article:

Computer hijacking: How can StratumV2 solve this problem (and more) and provide better security for miners digging in the mine pools

Stratum V2 agreement to decentralize bitcoin Work negotiation from the perspective of mining pool (based on BetterHash)

This article was written by Daniel Frumkin, Director of mining research at Braiins.

Attention on twitter Daniel:https://twitter.com/dfrumps.

Translated by Puguang, Business Development Director, Braiins China.