Bitcoin Miners Face Semi-Empty Block at Height 878889: Analyzing Mempool Data Insights

On January 12th, COINOTAG reported a noteworthy event pertaining to the Bitcoin network, as data from the mempool revealed that miners successfully processed a semi-empty block at a height of 878,889. This block was remarkably created with merely an 87-second interval from its predecessor. Mempool’s founder, @mononautical, highlighted this occurrence on social media, suggesting that all transactions associated with this block were transmitted within the prior minute. This situation may indicate that the block producer’s node either restarted without the mempool.dat file or had not fully loaded it when generating the block template. Notably, a similar incident transpired at block height 855,363 around five months prior, underscoring potential recurring issues within the network’s transaction processing capabilities.