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rothbardrand
on July 17, 2017
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Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31s...
It's an exploit that gives a miner a way to boost profits, but in order to do so, they have to mine empty blocks, which is bad for bitcoin because the purpose of miners is to build blocks with transactions in them.
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