"Counter to popular opinion, empty blocks help bury other blocks and thus provide security. (Thanks to the ever insightful Dan Robinson of Chain for bringing th

"Counter to popular opinion, empty blocks help bury other blocks and thus provide security. (Thanks to the ever insightful Dan Robinson of Chain for bringing this up!)" Empty blocks are almost equivalent to a successful 10 min DOS attack on the network. The Poisson distribution and network hasing power overshoots affect whether it is really likely to be 10 minutes of DOS or not, plus a very small amont for empty blocks not being orphaned as often. Then you could subtract from the harm that a block even empty has perhaps the smallest of value for burying the last block, while still being a denial of service to the new blocks that some other block would have loved to have buried the transactions of. It takes a twisted logic to love ones denial of service.