# Lehar / Parlour Paper

**URL:** <https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/lehar-parlour-paper/2225>\
**Category:** Economics\
**Created:** [February 3, 2026, 11:19pm UTC](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/lehar-parlour-paper/2225 "2026-02-03T23:19:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![AntoineP](https://delvingbitcoin.org/user_avatar/delvingbitcoin.org/antoinep/32/483_2.png) [@AntoineP](https://delvingbitcoin.org/u/AntoineP)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 2:44pm UTC](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/lehar-parlour-paper/2225/5 "2026-02-05T14:44:30Z")

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@0xB10C added an [empty blocks dashboard](https://mainnet.observer/charts/blocks-empty/) to mainnet.observer. It also links to this [2017 post](https://www.bitmex.com/blog/empty-block-data-by-mining-pool) from Bitmex Research, which surfaces another hypothesis for the “long” empty blocks circa 2015-2016: a covert ASIC boost optimisation from Bitmain.

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