<p>Thousands of early blocks are empty except for the required generation transaction. See <a href="http://blockexplorer.com/block/00000000839a8e6886ab5951d76f411475428afc90947ee320161bbf18eb6048">block #1</a>, for example.</p>

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2013-04-03T21:40:27.850Z
Also, some miners (just to be annoying) mine empty blocks (only containing the 25BTC reward transaction)
lurf jurv
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theymos
<p>Has any miner ever earned their 50/25 BTC solving a block with only one or two transactions? Maybe they got lucky before the full ten minutes?</p>

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What is the smallest block ever mined?
pinhead
# What is the smallest block ever mined?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-03-30)

Has any miner ever earned their 50/25 BTC solving a block with only one or two transactions? Maybe they got lucky before the full ten minutes?

**Tags:** block, empty-blocks


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2013-03-30. Score: 6 | Accepted answer

Thousands of early blocks are empty except for the required generation transaction. See [block #1](http://blockexplorer.com/block/00000000839a8e6886ab5951d76f411475428afc90947ee320161bbf18eb6048), for example.

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: Also, some miners (just to be annoying) mine empty blocks (only containing the 25BTC reward transaction)  

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