Any thoughts as to why the mempool has been rammed/spammed for the past 3 weeks? #thoughts #mempool #rammedspammed #weeks


Any views as to why the mempool has been rammed/spammed for the earlier 3 months?

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  • Alfador8 Reply

    Ordinals/Inscriptions

    March 17, 2023 at 7:45 am
  • solomonsatoshi Reply

    More people than usual are fleeing the corrupt, parasitic, rentseeking, usurious and fundamentally flawed Fiat Debt Slavery Bankers Cartel Hegemony…

    March 17, 2023 at 7:45 am
  • evildave_666 Reply

    Unpopular opinion: no transaction with a fee high enough to eventually get included in a block is spam, no matter the intended purpose.

    March 17, 2023 at 7:45 am
  • Numerous-Kitchen-774 Reply

    The biggest issue is with syncing times. It’s already a battle in lots of parts of the world to download the blockchain. You have to download everything to sync, and if you prune the blockchain and delete that info of your node, that’s 1 less node to sync to and download the full blockchain.

    When the bitcoin blockchain becomes too big to download for the average peer, a fully peer to peer network is difficult to maintain. Hopefully we can figure something out.

    March 17, 2023 at 7:45 am
  • KAX1107 Reply

    Too many dumb comments about ordinals. The fact is ordinals are only [around 15%](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrS9QiKXwAAN1Y1?format=png&name=medium) of transactions. They’re just using marginal blockspace that used to be unbid for. Blockspace usage used to be 80-85% on average. IMO it’s also been a net positive in [accelerating Taproot adoption](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrS9PwZWcAA4189?format=jpg&name=medium). There’s no global mempool. It’s managed individually by nodes who set their own policies. Mempool cannot get “spammed” or “congested”. At any given time, you pay whatever the priority fee is to get in the next block. Average fee rates have not gone up at all and fee market has been very robust despite all the demand for blockspace. That’s testament to how well SegWit improved fee estimation. Use Lightning for instant, near-free transactions.

    March 17, 2023 at 7:45 am
  • Prestigious-Ad-6884 Reply

    Adding NTF to a system that was never design for it. and higher than usual activity due to the upcoming collapse of the world reserve currency.

    March 17, 2023 at 7:45 am
  • turpin23 Reply

    The crypto winter and FTX falllout have driven more altcoin users into bitcoin.

    March 17, 2023 at 7:45 am
  • Abundance144 Reply

    People are looking for assets that can exist outside of the banking system. Pretty much everyone who first transfers their coin off an exchange accepts whatever fee value the exchange defaults to. They don’t know the difference.

    March 17, 2023 at 7:45 am
  • OddioClay Reply

    As annoying as it may be for the average person trying to do on-chain transactions, this is a positive sign of adoption and securing a dwindling security budget for the network.

    March 17, 2023 at 7:45 am
  • HoldOnDearLife Reply

    Mining facilities want more money during volatile market times?

    March 17, 2023 at 7:45 am
  • bitrequest Reply

    Because Bitcoin can’t handle global adoption unfortunately.

    March 17, 2023 at 7:45 am
  • androbuntu Reply

    There’s a lot of transaction contain 10k satoshi. Does anyone know what is this?

    March 17, 2023 at 7:45 am

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