If you look, block 823924 was mined 1 minute prior.
It takes some time for transactions to be compiled into the template. While this is occurring, miners try to solve for an empty template, in case they get really lucky and find a valid hash before the transactions can be compiled.
It is more profitable to go ahead and submit the empty block that a valid hash was found for than to discard it and try to find a new valid hash with the transactions included. The likelihood is that it would be found by a different pool, and the miners on the pool that found the hash for the empty block would get nothing.
Dikaios1517
npub1ku…v3lhe
2024-01-02 00:29:08
in reply to nevent1q…ld82
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npub1kun5628raxpm7usdkj62z2337hr77f3ryrg9cf0vjpyf4jvk9r9smv3lhePublished at
2024-01-02 00:29:08Event JSON
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