Result of the perm-ban spree taking place this week. Most must be alt-accounts of those users.
It is one of reasons. Permanent bans and rises of bitcoin, together result in massive number of total woke-up accounts recent days. Permanent bans within recent days (more than 1 thousands) caused nearly same number of lower rank accounts created or woke up. Additionally, rises of bitcoin to suprass $7000 led to woke-up accounts of real users or bounty hunters or fudsters.
Yesterday, 400 users got banned. The day before, 300 users got banned.
Before that, there were about 50 bans per day. I keep track because of
my banned users list, and every morning I see the total number of new bans.
Since yesterday, there are much more topics in Meta asking why they are banned, including a Russian speaking
DT1 member.