I know it has been brought up, and some foofoo’d it and didn’t think it was important, it just became important, as of the time of this post, there are over 600 transactions waiting in mempool with some as old as 10 hours plus, that are being ignored by empty block after empty block after empty block… “piggybacking” as I call it, they are mining rewards without processing transactions, providing ZERO benefit to the network…
the whole purpose of miners/pools are to process transactions and move the network forward, if they move the network forward without processing the blocks, the network sits in limbo, people unable to conduct transactions, and transactions that will expire once the maximum threshold is met, today has reached a critical example of why we need to spread awareness and get miners to switch from those pools…
an article was done the other day, pointing out how f2pool is doing this to other coins as well, ethereum being the highlight of that story, they are no stranger to this style of behavior, they have done it to bitcoin in the past among many others, and now they are abusing the Electroneum network with this same action, mining empty blocks just to get a greater percentage of awards is nothing short of theft from you!
https://medium.com/@ASvanevik/why-all-these-empty-ethereum-blocks-666acbbf002
https://decryptmedia.com/2018/10/02/spy-mining-hits-ethereum/
why do I use such a strong word of theft if its something not breaking the core code? because without transactions you cannot move your coins around, without transactions people can’t shop, without transactions people can’t trade on exchanges, so they are stealing your access to moving your funds, they are getting paid to provide no service, if that were any other business you would stop business with them, so we need to encourage miners to stop mining with them, and move to pools processing transactions…
https://miningpoolstats.stream/electroneum
the link above leads to a website showing the pools available, miners currently on f2pool/poolin should immediately leave for the next set of pools because they are processing transactions, and if transactions aren’t cleared up, the network will continue with 10 hour delays for some transactions, THAT is something we should all be infuriated on, spread the word, get the message out, tell those you know mining, and send a resounding message to Electroneum Ltd that they should make a statement about this, to add pressure…