Hey, I’m a big dummy, somebody help me understand this.
Take a look at the blockchain explorer right now. A lot of smaller transactions, and then occasionally you get some big ones.
It seems like for the blocks that are >1MB Taal is mining about 80% of those blocks. Taal has close to a 100% rate for the ones that are >10MB.
How can this be? It doesn’t seem like the size of the block should have any effect on whether or not the block gets mined? What is Taal doing here? My best guess is that they’re testing a transaction gun, and potentially turning on more miners when they have a lot of data that they need to mine?
Now that I’m working this out, it would make sense that hashing a large block would be more resource intensive than hashing a small block. So small gains in efficiency in that processing would lead to dramatically higher likelihood of confirmation.
Hey, I’m a big dummy, somebody help me understand this.
Take a look at the blockchain explorer right now. A lot of smaller transactions, and then occasionally you get some big ones.
It seems like for the blocks that are >1MB Taal is mining about 80% of those blocks. Taal has close to a 100% rate for the ones that are >10MB.
How can this be? It doesn’t seem like the size of the block should have any effect on whether or not the block gets mined? What is Taal doing here? My best guess is that they’re testing a transaction gun, and potentially turning on more miners when they have a lot of data that they need to mine?
Now that I’m working this out, it would make sense that hashing a large block would be more resource intensive than hashing a small block. So small gains in efficiency in that processing would lead to dramatically higher likelihood of confirmation.