# Bitcoin miners mine empty blocks, driven by economic interests? 🤔

According to mempool data, Bitcoin mined an empty block at height 866508, which only contained a transaction of block reward Coinbase. The time interval with the previous block height was only 36 seconds.

Why do miners choose to pack empty blocks? This is out of consideration of economic interests. In order to make full use of this time for mining and avoid conflicts with transactions packed in the parent block, miners can only try to mine empty blocks.

What do you think of this practice? Welcome to discuss in the comment area!