@Frances_Coppola If your hardware wallet is stolen, hopefully you've used a PIN to encrypt it and that buys you some time to transfer your coins out of the wallet using your recovery seed. But you don't need the seed to use the hardware wallet... Just the PIN.
@john_r365@cankerwort_ The shorter the block interval (2 mins for XMR) the bigger advantage even a few seconds gives. 6 seconds is a ~5% advantage (simplified example)
@john_r365@cankerwort_ All other miners will need to verify the block before mining on top of it. So if the miner packs their block, that adds extra txs for the competition to verify before they can mine. Which means the miner has a few extra seconds head start.
@john_r365@cankerwort_ Arguably, there is a very small fee that a miner should require, such that the added time/cost/risk to them for including that tx in the block is covered. This is super miniscule though, and the anti-spam "minimum fee to relay" setting more than covers that
@cankerwort_@john_r365 Tend to agree fees should be a bit higher, maybe ~5Β’? However, fees aren't really a consensus thing right now. The core implementation won't relay txs with fees below a certain level, but miners can mine any tx they want. If blocks aren't at the min adj cap level, it's kinda moot