They are still accelerating 100 transactions per hour freely.
The problem is that ordinal scammers are abusing ViaBTC free accelrator with their bots and don't allow humans to submit their transactions.
If you check the previous blocks mined by ViaBTC, you will see that they have included many low fee transactions.
See this post I made in another thread.
but I'm starting to think Viabtc is no longer truly offering 100 tx per hour
I think they do.
Here are the latest two blocks mined by ViaBTC. Transactions are sorted by their fee rate in ascending order.
(Times are in UTC.)
Just visit the above links and see how many low fee transactions they have included.
According to above times, ViaBTC should have accelerated 300 transactions freely in block number 823066.
Let's check if they did so.
The minimum required fee rate for getting confirmation in block number 823066 was around 100 satoshi. ViaBTC included 312 transactions with the fee rate of less than 90 sat/vbyte. Click
here to see all those transactions.
10 out of those 312 transactions were confirmed with CPFP and that means that 302 transactions were accelerated by ViaBTC. All those 302 transactions meet ViaBTC free accelerator requirements.
The problem is how ViaBTC free accelerator is being abused by bots. 294 out of 302 transactions are related to ordinals. They are all 1 input - 1 output transactions paying 23 sat/vbyte.