Why do blocks keep being mined when there are no transactions happening?

Question

Hi as per above question. I'm curious as to why blocks are being mined and appended when no transactions are happening, is it a default setting for demo purposes?

Thanks.

Answer 1

This was just asked and answered: http://www.multichain.com/qa/2852/why-the-blocks-keep-adding-when-transactions-are-performed

Answer 2

Version 1.0 alpha 28 of MultiChain adds a mine-empty-rounds parameter which controls how long mining goes on for, after there are no new transactions: http://www.multichain.com/developers/blockchain-parameters/