For people who understand this better. When mining, isn’t it better to stick with a template for a relatively longer time, and not keep adding removing transactions from it?
This question has nothing to do with the options above.
I was just wonder, because when I look at the Ocean dashboard, the template changes every second. And for some reason I feel it is more probably to hit a block if the template doesnt change for say 3 minutes.
Might be completely wrong but that’s why I’m asking.
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I think you are wrong because the probability of finding a valid block at trial number N should follow a Geometric Distribution.
The Geometric Distribution has the property of being "memoryless".

Geometric distribution - Wikipedia
Correct, it makes no difference. This indifference is part of what makes a hash function a "cryptographic hash function". The distribution is nearly gaussian, close enough to call it random.
The template has to be at least subtly different for every hash (which a mining chip does billions of every second)