ViaBTC free slots available [1 Jan 2024]

[Findingnemo]

Edit: Now the slots are visible sand available for humans to use. If you want then make use of it.

If you have tried using viabtc accelerator to accelerate your transaction via 100 free quota per hour then it is close to impossible for the past couple of days. So I thought they stopped offering free TX acceleration at first but I couldn't find anywhere that they stopped offering free TX acceleration.

That led me to think what if someone built a bot to abuse their service? or what else it could be?

That is why no one can see the numbers at the refreshing time and it always says the limit is exceeded, and also I would like to know if anyone successfully submitted it in the last two days.

[Orpichukwu]

That led me to think what if someone built a bot to abuse their service? or what else it could be?

I have also been thinking the same thing, as it's very difficult now a days to even see the free slot count decrease, as it always appears that users are up all the time. It's an hour for when they need to open up the free slot. The moment you refresh the page, you will see that the 100 have already been used and added to the total number of accelerated transactions.
 
I was able to accelerate one transition just yesterday, but ever since then the rest have not been going through, and I don't think that's just a normal speed from humans, as it looks like a bot to me. The speed rate they use in using up that free slot is just a gap of 1–5 seconds, and it's abnormal to me.

[hosseinimr93]

They are still accelerating 100 transactions per hour freely.
The problem is that ordinal scammers are abusing ViaBTC free accelerator with their bots and don't allow humans to submit their transactions.

If you check the last blocks mined by ViaBTC, you will see that they have included many low fee transactions.

Read the 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.)

• 823055 (19:31)
• 823066 (22:01)

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.

[CryptSafe]

I noticed same as well. I tried accelerating my transaction a day ago but it was the same prompt that I got as a response. Possibly there might be a high traffic for txd acceleration which likely have exceeded their daily limit so in that case, there is no way one can be able to use the free accelerator but rather pay for txd acceleration.

On the other hand, what you have said might likely be another factor as well. There might have been a bot inversion on their website which must have had a side effect on their website and hence they might have decided to not render any free accelerator slots anymore or otherwise.

[Upgrade00]

hosseinimr93 is right. ViaBTC are still offering 100 free transactions but you are competing for those slots with bots that are active 24/7, meaning the chances of getting one transaction in is almost impossible if you're doing it manually.

This means that any other alternative way of going around the high fees can also be abused.

[Hatchy]

They are still accelerating 100 transactions per hour freely.
The problem is that ordinal scammers are abusing ViaBTC free accelerator with their bots and don't allow humans to submit their transactions.
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.

It's quite unfair for them to employ bots to dominate everyone else. I was beginning to believe that Viabtc had discontinued their free transaction service. The last time I attempted to use their accelerator, all the available slots seemed occupied. Within just over an hour, the 100 free accelerations were already claimed, which was unexpected. I had to wait for another hour, but I stayed vigilant and managed to secure a spot. Dealing with these tactics has become exhausting, especially considering how the ordinals disrupted the mempool.

[tabas]

I noticed that as well and even tried to timing the time before the hour ticks on exact 00 00 time but lo and behold, I didn't win getting one transaction acceleration. But the total accelerated transactions are still increasing and that means to say that there are bots that are quicker than us.

The problem is that ordinal scammers are abusing ViaBTC free accelerator with their bots and don't allow humans to submit their transactions.

These guys don't really want to give us some convenience as even this free tx accelerator is being over taken and abused by them.
I think that topics like this belongs to Service Discussion.

[Potato Chips]

I too was trying to push my transaction two days ago or so and essentially gave up lmao. My theory that time was they temporarily froze the hourly reset for free tx push since I tried hitting refresh the moment an hour reset and the "Remaining hourly FREE transactions" never moved from zero -- I think I tried this on two or three hourly resets... plus, on my previous attempts which were successful, i would typically see it moved from zero.

But the bot theory sounds feasible as well. I wouldn't be surprised if some 3rd party has started a paid acceleration service through viabtc lol. Idk if they'll be able to do something 'bout it but I'll try to drop an email about this to viabtc.

[Coyster]

It's quite unfair for them to employ bots to dominate everyone else.

Lol, they are not trying to be fair, but they are doing what it takes to have their transactions confirmed with a low fee rate. It is crazy and frustrating to say the least, ordinals spammers clog the mempool with their transactions and now they don't let humans use the only free accelerator around, by using bots to get in before anyone else can.

Within just over an hour, the 100 free accelerations were already claimed, which was unexpected.

Do you mean in a split second?

I had to wait for another hour, but I stayed vigilant and managed to secure a spot.

It is almost impossible for a human to use viabtc free accelerator right now, the 100 slots per hour gets filled in less than a second, and by bots.

[PX-Z]

I noticed it too, i talked about it on our local board too. I'm trying like 2 days in a row without success so i end up cancel my first transaction then push it with higher fee good thing i used electrum.

They are still accelerating 100 transactions per hour freely.
The problem is that ordinal scammers are abusing ViaBTC free accelerator with their bots and don't allow humans to submit their transactions.

They become overboard, they are one of the reasons why the network become so congested and now this too. Shit.

But talking about bots, so they can bypass the captcha on viabtc?

[Nwada001]

It's quite unfair for them to employ bots to dominate everyone else. I was beginning to believe that Viabtc had discontinued their free transaction service. The last time I attempted to use their accelerator, all the available slots seemed occupied. Within just over an hour, the 100 free accelerations were already claimed, which was unexpected. I had to wait for another hour, but I stayed vigilant and managed to secure a spot. Dealing with these tactics has become exhausting, especially considering how the ordinals disrupted the mempool.

Unfair, you said? I don't see those who are also the cause of the high transaction fee ever seeing anything as fair to them; they can't see such; in fact, they will like to make good use of any opportunity that they can get from the network that also includes a cheap transaction fee after succeeding in raising the fee to its ATH this year.
 
Whats shocking to me is that if they are actually using bots to do this, ever wonder how much such bots will cost them to be running? This is a hack and cheat, and I also don't see fees coming back to normal anytime soon, as they will continue promoting tokens until their hype is over. As long as it's still on, they will keep on filling the block space.

[BitMaxz]

I am sometimes lucky to see a few free remaining submissions on their accelerator the last time I used it was last week but right now I tried every hour always zero free submissions. I believe someone uses bots to automatically submit unconfirmed transactions.

Viabtc Captcha is very basic and easy to bypass they should replace the reCaptcha with Google reCAPTCHA v3 to get rid of these bots or else no real users can use their free accelerator.

[Samlucky O]

They are still accelerating 100 transactions per hour freely.
The problem is that ordinal scammers are abusing ViaBTC free accelerator with their bots and don't allow humans to submit their transactions.

If you check the last blocks mined by ViaBTC, you will see that they have included many low fee transactions.

Read the post I made in another thread.

You are actually Wright I never thought of that,  but with this your detailed explanation and analysis I can boldly explain more better anywhere about this. I never knew bots can also be used to perform transactions automatically in viabtc accelerator rathar than human using manual method.

[hd49728]

It is their free tx accelerator and has limited slots.

They already set their rules for us to use that free accelerator and they can change it if Ordinals continue to abuse it more. They certainly can do it with their own settings as it is their home and they don't open it for all.

You can wait for other accelerator tool like mempool.space. When mempool.space will launch it officially, I don't know.
https://x.com/mempool/status/1659619347910803466

[sunsilk]

I am sometimes lucky to see a few free remaining submissions on their accelerator the last time I used it was last week but right now I tried every hour always zero free submissions. I believe someone uses bots to automatically submit unconfirmed transactions.

Me too, last week I was able to see some free remaining ones. But this time, just like all of you guys I don't see some free remaining slots anymore.

So as I was posting this let's see if there will be changes over time or if it's still working every hour. For everyone's reference:

Total Accelerated Transactions:

702101

Let us see if it's going to change or there will be added transactions from that number within the next hours after I post this.

[PX-Z]

Total Accelerated Transactions:

702101

Let us see if it's going to change or there will be added transactions from that number within the next hours after I post this.

It will add 100 more after an hour, but you won't see any remaining free transactions even a second after the hour changed. I observed it too for more than 2 days believing i will get a chance to accelerate my unconfirmed transaction but unfortunately, i didn't.

[Findingnemo]

You can wait for other accelerator tool like mempool.space. When mempool.space will launch it officially, I don't know.
https://x.com/mempool/status/1659619347910803466

Mempool space launched their acceleration service at least over a month as far as I know.



But acceleration service is always more expensive but Mempool offers it effective rate compared to Binance and viabtc but still RBF is way lot cheaper than using a paid accelerator but this isn't about paid accelerator, just the free one which is only offered by Viabtc.

[RapTarX]

I used ViaBTC free accelerator last week and it worked fine at that time although I had 2 failed attempts before a successful submission. I haven't used them in the last few days.

Total Accelerated Transactions:

702101

Let us see if it's going to change or there will be added transactions from that number within the next hours after I post this.

It will get changed because they do offer free acceleration but read what hosseinimr93 has shared. Ordinal spammers are abusing through the help of some automated tools to submit low-fee txs; there's no way we can beat automated tools LOL.

But acceleration service is always more expensive but Mempool offers it effective rate compared to Binance and viabtc but still RBF is way lot cheaper than using a paid accelerator but this isn't about paid accelerator, just the free one which is only offered by Viabtc.

A paid accelerator is only useful when you need acceleration a lot of times. I don't know the fee of ViaBTC paid accelerator or mempool though. Regardless, it can still be beneficial when you have a lot of txs to accelerate. Otherwise, it's a waste of money.

Edit- It seems I was wrong. I thought ViaBTC charges a subscription-based fee while it's for every tx LOL.

Edit

I found something weird on ViaBTC free acceleration. I was checking it and found 19 remaining hourly free tx. Out of curiosity, I tried with a pending tx from the mempool; it says submissions are beyond the limit. After a few refreshing, the remaining hourly free acceleration remains at 19 LOL.

[hosseinimr93]

But talking about bots, so they can bypass the captcha on viabtc?

Yes, they are bypassing the captcha.
Bots solve ViaBTC captcha faster than humans.

I found something weird on ViaBTC free acceleration. I was checking it and found 19 remaining hourly free tx. Out of curiosity, I tried with a pending tx from the mempool; it says submissions are beyond the limit.

I just checked that and it's still displaying 19 remaining hourly free transactions.

ViaBTC hasn't mined any block in the past 9 hours.
I guess they won't accept any new transaction for free acceleration until they mine a new block and include the transactions they have received in the past 9 hours.


Edit:
It seems that my guess was correct.
ViaBTC just mined a block and they accepted more transactions for free acceleration after that.
The number of remaining hourly free transactions is now zero.

[RapTarX]

Edit:
It seems that my guess was correct.
ViaBTC just mined a block and they accepted more transactions for free acceleration after that.
The number of remaining hourly free transactions is now zero.

I was confused and thought it was a bug from ViaBTC LOL. I haven't thought about that. I just have checked the site and found out that there's no remaining hourly free tx. BTW, what's their criteria for not accepting new acceleration request until they find new block? Is it because they want some high fee txs to be included in the block they mine? Or just because we have block size limit? I haven't found any such criteria on their site.