Except for linking all your visits to a certain website, which is bad for privacy.

The default of Tor browser is a lot better: it doesn't store cookies:

The privacy risk involves more than just "other sites": it includes not telling any site that you've visited it before.
In short: cookies are bad for privacy, no matter what's in there.

That's because they're not coins at all, they're tokens:
The interesting part is: theymos posted this on the Tokens (Altcoins) board.

We may need a "Tokens (Bitcoin)" board for this. But at the moment, that would make it look if Bitcointalk is encouraging the blockchain spam. I'd say we need that board once there's a real-world application for Bitcoin Tokens.

That would be my guess. And it instantly shows a flaw: the URL is still visible in an image. Many ANN topics use images to display the content, so maybe they should be wiped too. Or at least from the OP of locked threads.

Correct. And there it's called dust. Or spam. Let's say I start calling one of my inputs "My Precious". Even though that input is on the Bitcoin blockchain, it makes no sense to create topics about My Precious on the Bitcoin boards.

Feel free to cry all you want about me in my reputation thread.

It shows he doesn't use his Trust list to retaliate on those users. Why would you even bring that up?

Really? People come looking for privacy but don't wipe the cookies from their Tor browser?

Have you tried it recently? They changed to a new captcha not so long ago, after which the transaction accelerator was available most of the hour. It used to tell me I beat 95% of the users with the captcha. Now, it tells me I beat 8% of the captcha, and the accelerator is instantly unavailable. So I can only conclude bots fill it up. Maybe someone created a paid service that relies on ViaBTC.

That's true, but I'd argue it's irrelevant. They have no meaning on the Bitcoin blockchain other than "Bitcoin dust". The "meaning" comes from whatever a third party made up.

It depends on what you're trying to do. If you have 20 small inputs, it's best to wait. If you want to make a small payment, any low-fee altcoin can do.
I hate seeing Bitcoin this unusable!

Sure. Or find a topic where it fits better.

That's because each input and output make the transaction larger (in (v)bytes), which means it takes up a larger share of the available block space. You should read my topic on consolidating small inputs.

That's the Ordinal crap, right? I've had mixed success with reports, and stopped reporting them after my last one was marked Bad.

In my mind it works the same as art: part money laundering, part hoping that someone else is going to pay more for it.

I'm not sure how money laundering through miners would work, but if they get several Bitcoins in fees per block, that adds up to 10 million dollars per day or more.

Look at Johoe's graph: if a block gets found, fees drop. If a new block takes long, fees go up. It's the same as it was in 2017: too many automated system automatically increase fees. They're all competing for the scarce block space.

It looks like they're blocking my scraper when I'm half way through. I don't have time to fix it right now.

Update: as a quick test, I've increased the delay between scraping from 6 to 16 seconds. That means the scraping time is going to vary a lot per altcoin. I'll see if this works tomorrow. I don't get it though: what's the point of an api if you don't even allow someone to scrape data with a whopping 6 seconds delay between downloads?

Update: The last update worked again (it just takes more than 40 minutes now). I've wiped 4 days with incomplete data, so the graph should be okay again tomorrow (with a 4 day hole, that is).

He's whitelisted now.

Bump!

I don't think you can still scrape this data somewhere: there's not really a point to keep old mempool snapshots.
Before the BCH-fork (which may or may not have been a cause for Bitcoin blockchain spam), I don't think mempool was an issue. As far as I know, it was empty most of the time.

I have some related data though, see Bitcoin block data available in CSV format: size.txt shows which blocks weren't full. If blocks aren't full, that means mempool gets emptied every time. There's more data on fees, either in sats on in dollars.

If I remember correctly, it used to say something like "already accelerated".

I didn't see his post (2 seconds before mine). Bitcointalk to the rescue

ViaBTC now says "Accelerating the transaction", instead of the green "added" they used to add. Anyway, I added the second one for OP, it'll probably confirm within about 6 hours.

With Bitcoin, there's a argument to do so. But PrivacyG was talking about Monero, where it doesn't make sense to give a private key instead of making a transaction.

The second transaction has a fee high enough to use ViaBTC's free accelerator, the first one doesn't.
You'll have to do it at exactly the whole hour, and you'll be competing against thousands of other people for 100 spots. Good luck, you have about 2 seconds to try each hour.