miner, core, params: enable empty blocks + Developer Chain Config (#36)

* miner: remove empty block breaks

* core, params: Suave Developer chain config

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Co-authored-by: dmarzzz <danamrzec@icloud.com>

core/genesis.go

@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ func DefaultSepoliaGenesisBlock() *Genesis {
 // DeveloperGenesisBlock returns the 'geth --dev' genesis block.
 func DeveloperGenesisBlock(period uint64, gasLimit uint64, faucet common.Address) *Genesis {
 	// Override the default period to the user requested one
-	config := *params.SuaveChainConfig
+	config := *params.DeveloperSuaveChainConfig
 
 	// Assemble and return the genesis with the precompiles and faucet pre-funded
 	return &Genesis{

miner/worker.go

@@ -648,8 +648,7 @@ func (w *worker) mainLoop() {
 				// Special case, if the consensus engine is 0 period clique(dev mode),
 				// submit sealing work here since all empty submission will be rejected
 				// by clique. Of course the advance sealing(empty submission) is disabled.
-				if w.chainConfig.Clique != nil && false { // && w.chainConfig.Clique.Period == 0 {
-					// Don't commit empty!
+				if w.chainConfig.Clique != nil && w.chainConfig.Clique.Period == 0 {
 					w.commitWork(nil, true, time.Now().Unix())
 				}
 			}
@@ -730,9 +729,6 @@ func (w *worker) resultLoop() {
 			if block == nil {
 				continue
 			}
-			if block.Transactions().Len() == 0 {
-				continue
-			}
 			// Short circuit when receiving duplicate result caused by resubmitting.
 			if w.chain.HasBlock(block.Hash(), block.NumberU64()) {
 				continue

params/config.go

@@ -152,6 +152,30 @@ var (
 			Epoch:  30000,
 		},
 	}
+
+	// SuaveChainConfig for development with 0 period to avoid mining empty blocks
+	DeveloperSuaveChainConfig = &ChainConfig{
+		ChainID:             big.NewInt(424242),
+		HomesteadBlock:      big.NewInt(0),
+		DAOForkBlock:        nil,
+		DAOForkSupport:      false,
+		EIP150Block:         big.NewInt(0),
+		EIP155Block:         big.NewInt(0),
+		EIP158Block:         big.NewInt(0),
+		ByzantiumBlock:      big.NewInt(0),
+		ConstantinopleBlock: big.NewInt(0),
+		PetersburgBlock:     big.NewInt(0),
+		IstanbulBlock:       big.NewInt(0),
+		MuirGlacierBlock:    big.NewInt(0),
+		BerlinBlock:         big.NewInt(0),
+		LondonBlock:         big.NewInt(0),
+		SuaveBlock:          big.NewInt(0),
+		ArrowGlacierBlock:   nil,
+		Clique: &CliqueConfig{
+			Period: 0,
+			Epoch:  30000,
+		},
+	}
 	// AllEthashProtocolChanges contains every protocol change (EIPs) introduced
 	// and accepted by the Ethereum core developers into the Ethash consensus.
 	AllEthashProtocolChanges = &ChainConfig{