Bitcoin mined an empty block at height 857116 41 minutes ago

BlockBeats news, on August 17, according to mempool data, miners mined an empty block (that is, the block only contains one transaction of block reward Coinbase) at Bitcoin height 857116 41 minutes ago, and the time interval with the previous block height is only 22 seconds.

Miners pack empty blocks for economic considerations, which is the wisest choice for miners. In order to make full use of this time for mining and avoid conflicts with transactions packed in the parent block, miners cannot fill transactions into the block, which means that miners can only try to mine empty blocks.