Cost of Spam attacks and who is paying the bills?

[Kakmakr]

Just a quick question to the more technically inclined. Has anyone traced the spam attack back to a specific address and then calculated how much this exercise is costing these people. How likely are this, that it might be the miners doing this and that this cost are very little, because they are picking up the miners fee?

The last spam attack went on for 2 to 3 days and then suddenly within a few hours the backlog was almost cleared?

Why will they allow for this situation to reach critical mass, before they jump in as the hero to solve this within a few hours? < Point made?>

Who jumped in to clear these transactions? Why did they not do this earlier?

These are just some of the questions that are going unanswered and we are just sitting back and encouraging people to pay higher fees, to get out of this shit situation. ^hmmmmmmm^

The Blockstream people sabotage the network, by stalling with the much needed Block size increase and the unknown entity <miners?> are sabotaging the network to signal their issues with SegWit and the Lightning Network?

Do we know, who is doing what and why?  ^hmmmmmmm^