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RE: A look at Steem blocksize evolution
I'm really surprised there are still empty blocks. I'm wondering if this is a mining issue or technical issue rather than in direct relation to posting. I know there are still occasionally empty bitcoin blocks.
Actually I was surprised as well but like @bones mentioned here, the block time is 3 seconds, which allows for more data absorption thus some blocks are still empty, which is a good thing in my opinion, it means Steem can handle much more data in the future.
Yes definitely it makes sense. I think this allows a lot more bandwidth than most other blockchains. Is this due to it being built on graphene?
Yes, Graphene is definitely the fastest blockchain implementation that has proven its performance in the real world.
Yes I found out about it when I was investing in Peerplays and then got to use the Bitshares exchange. Although I didn't really like the exchange layout it gave me a new appreciation for the technology. Bitshares was one of the few crypto projects that I missed until recently, better late than never though.
The small blocks and block time are exactly why there's still empty blocks.
Steem was built to upscale like crazy which by all accounts is a good thing. Empty blocks = room for growth without a need for a hard fork to increase the block size or reduce block time confirmation. I've noticed that the average time to complete a STEEM transaction is about 5 minutes which is nothing compared to the hours I've waited for a Bitcoin transaction to be validated.
Block size and block confirmation times are something Bitcoin users know all too well is a real pain. It has been a matter of debate for many months because a hard fork to increase the Bitcoin block size to over the 1MB cap would render current ASIC's useless and put the screws to many major mining operations.
Bitcoin has all but maxed out the network's ability to process blocks at a reasonable rate because of the block size issue, but no one can seem to stop arguing about it long enough to just fork and fix it. It's a real damned if you do, damned if you don't issue that I'm sure we'll hear more about sooner rather than later.
A new block is produced about every 3 seconds. With that kind of speed, I'm not surprised there are still some empty blocks.