Temporarily ignore or limit empty or near empty blocks if the hash rate rises significantly in a relatvely short period of time #2725

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Perhaps if the hash rate rose, to then ignore any empty or near empty blocks. Would that work very well or at all?

"Secure the network" in what way?

@alexpennace There's this: http://gavintech.blogspot.com/2012/05/neutralizing-51-attack.html

Perhaps if the hash rate rose, to then ignore any empty or near empty blocks. Would that work very well or at all?

And perhaps if there happens to be many empty blocks or near empty blocks, to just ignore almost all of them. Selecting which ones to ignore and which ones to accept would be tricky, but I'm sure there could be a universal algorithm for choosing which ones.