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Miners don’t have to include transactions in a block, it’s voluntary. They just do it because of the transactions fees that they earn from including them. Mining pools send an empty block template to the miners first, because it’s faster to send (less data) so they can already start mining and only later send a new block template that includes transactions. Sometimes a block gets found in the time between those two templates, resulting in an empty block.
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