Quote from: AngryDwarf on March 20, 2017, 10:08:49 PM

Quote from: rizzlarolla on March 20, 2017, 09:58:01 PM

Quote from: AngryDwarf on March 20, 2017, 09:48:35 PM

Maybe they are testing their own LN effects. What gets me is that these transactions are created at the exact same time of the block that they are included in. That is not normal network propagation.

That get's me too.
Are they broadcast at the same time as the block?
Do they even hit the mempool?

Some bitfury blocks are 1/3 full of this address's tx's paying 0.0001btc fee each to send zero bitcoins.

They would be losing out on higher network fees by including these transactions. It appears that they are creating them themselves and stuffing them straight into their own blocks. So possibly one way of creating their own reliable off-chain service?

Example transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/b6d186f14ac6e33267d352f4762a42a73f7d88513dfddfa1e87d918c580b68f0

That is how it look's.
But these tx's contain nothing but a (low) fee, how is that any service?

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Last 10 blocks mined by bitfury contain 1.147550mb of tx's from 3QQ address. That is 11.4% of their blockspace. (last 24 hour)
bitfury have 10% of Bitcoin's total hashpower.
11.4% blockspace of 10% Bitcoin's total hashpower = 1.14% of Bitcoins total hashpower mining fake tx's from 1 address.
1 address sending zero bitcoin is using 1% of Bitcoin's total resource's

At that rate Bitcoin could only serve 100 addresses!