by now I think everyone knows perfectly well that this is a clear spam attack against bitcoin network and there is no hiding the facts.
the question about who is responsible has been around for a long time and I am afraid we can only come up with speculations and I nave not yet seen any valid evidence on who is/are doing this and why are they doing it.
we know it started with the block size debate, so it can be related to that.
we also know that the fees are rising a lot because of this and fees go to the miners. in other words they are making profit from this spam attack and a big amount of profit not just a simple couple of percentages rise. the total fee they have been earning has gone up a lot.
p.s. here is the link to the hash rate but it is not showing anything about this: https://blockchain.info/pools
p.p.s. another problem is that you can't really call this a spam! these are transactions that bitcoin protocol allows making. and no rule is being broken while making them.
Topic: 60,000 Unconfirmed transaction and counting - page 6. (Read 4350 times)
We need bigger blocks... lets all just run le BU
What exactly is going on here?: https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions Is it possible that It's some kind of attack from miners to make people think that we need Bitcoin unlimited? Hash rate is no longer being displayed on the first page for some reasons so I can't tell exactly.
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