As far as computing time, it doesn't cost much more to mine a full block than an empty block. So what was Bitmain trying to prove?
I think they were taking advantage of the other miners trying to include as many tx in a block to use their hash to quickly find a block. This happens occasionally day-to-day
But naturally this should not have been happening during the stress test for a major miner as many transactions were in their mempools - they should have put in as many tx as possible
OTOH, stress test was the best time, it proves that mempool can be processed even if small block miners are around. A great argument for no-limit blocks.
And a great time to pull the 24hr average down,
if anybody wanted to do that.
Why would any BCH miner want to do that?
#wormhole
since they already had a side-chain in the works , making it look like mining big blocks causes problems,
help promote the use of side chains.
inching in, never to return.
