Why does Polygon Edge have continuous blocks created ?

[spunkyshooter]

As said here Polygon-Edge is creating new blocks every 2 sec, why ?

We have deployed Polygon-edge on production and we are now trying to integrate blockscout for explorer and since these blocks would be visible to users, its concerning us.

[zivkovicmilos]

Hey @spunkyshooter,

Thank you for reaching out.

Essentially, Polygon Edge operates on the notion that empty block are perfectly normal.
That means your consensus network is in tact and working to produce (albeit empty) blocks.

Currently, there is no support to enable any kind of non-empty block production mode (if there are no transactions to put into a block, don't produce a block), however we are looking into having this sometime down the road. Would you be interested in this feature?

What's worrying you about this exactly?

[spunkyshooter]

Thanks @zivkovicmilos

Yes, we are interested in that feature, From the users POV, they expect to see the non-empty blocks and not continuous empty blocks, They think this is a testnet. This small point could raise the questions and trustability of the blockchain.

[ConejoCapital]

any updates on this? incredibly curious on how it makes a difference for explorer UX and DB costs

[Solidityghost998]

any updates on the same ??

[ZIDUK]

Any update?

[kalpeshkamble]

??

[rhesus-protocol]

Yes, I was also thinking about the same. The miner address is always zero address even if I am running 2 validator nodes, why the miner is always zero address?

[Kourin1996]

@rhesus-protocol Hello, Miner in Block doesn't point to block creator in IBFT consensus. This field is used for voting to change validator set in IBFT PoA consensus.

[rhesus-protocol]

Hi, thanks for you reply. I am right now using PoS consensus. Is it same for PoS too?

[Kourin1996]

Yes. Miner field is not set.