<p>Miners can include as many (under the block size limit of course) or as few transactions as they like in a block. There may not be any particular reason for a lower number of transactions, thats just up to whatever algorithm the miners used to select transactions to mine in that block</p>

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meshcollider
<p>i just stumbled upon this block in the blockchain:
<a href="https://blockchain.info/block/00000000000000000052fca516261b65a8a455f35f4c2f867acfb08069def3ec" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blockchain.info/block/00000000000000000052fca516261b65a8a455f35f4c2f867acfb08069def3ec</a>
why is it so small with so few transactions?</p>

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do you know why this block is so unusually small?
WalterMitty
# do you know why this block is so unusually small?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-08-14)

i just stumbled upon this block in the blockchain:
<https://blockchain.info/block/00000000000000000052fca516261b65a8a455f35f4c2f867acfb08069def3ec>
why is it so small with so few transactions?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-08-15. Score: 1

Miners can include as many (under the block size limit of course) or as few transactions as they like in a block. There may not be any particular reason for a lower number of transactions, thats just up to whatever algorithm the miners used to select transactions to mine in that block


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