Excellent, thanks. I imagined I hadn't thought of something new, but empty blocks persist. Hopefully more implement that.

Pools construct a future template while the current template is being mined then all that needs to be supplied when a block is found is a hash pointer to the previous block and any adjustments to the future template.

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Alternative to Empty Blocks

[Stratum v2 does exactly this](https://braiins.com/blog/why-pools-mine-empty-blocks-and-how-stratum-v2-fixes-this).

Pools construct a future template while the current template is being mined then all that needs to be supplied when a block is found is a hash pointer to the previous block and any adjustments to the future template.



