ChainCatcher reported that, according to mempool data, miners produced an empty block at Bitcoin height 954352. An empty block refers to a block that does not include regular transactions and contains only the Coinbase transaction used for the block reward. In this case, the time gap between this block and the previous block height was only 62 seconds.
The report stated that miners package empty blocks for economic reasons, and that doing so can be the most rational choice for miners. After a new parent block is found, miners need to make full use of the short period of time available for mining and begin working on the next block as quickly as possible.
At the same time, miners need to avoid conflicts with transactions already included in the parent block. Under these conditions, they cannot immediately fill the new block with transactions, meaning they can only attempt to mine an empty block. As a result, the block at height 954352 contained only the Coinbase reward transaction and no other ordinary on-chain transactions.