I had the same concern, or a miner could fill the remainder of the block with their own high fee paying transactions if blocks were required to be full. 

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 7:55 AM Daniele Pinna via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
Maybe I'm getting this wrong but wouldn't this scheme imply that a miner is incentivized to limit the amount of transactions in a block to capture the maximum fee of the ones included?

As an example, mined blocks currently carry ~0.8 btc in fees right now. If I were to submit a transaction paying 1 btc in maximal money fees, then the miner would be incentivized to include my transaction alone to avoid that lower fee paying transactions reduce the amount of fees he can earn from my transaction alone. This would mean that I could literally clog the network by paying 1btc every ten minutes.

Am I missing something?

Daniele 
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