ViaBTC free slots available [1 Jan 2024]

[Doan9269]

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.

Know this that viabtc haven't stopped using their free acceleration service yet, I don't see any official release on that, but however, you should know that we are all humanbeings, some people among us cannot be trusted in dealing with something without them abusing the privilege in it, some will make use of some twicks to byepass the average capacity to make their transaction get included, we know about som many ways that people abuse things, some don't even know how to make use of the service, the purging fee must be upto the rate acceptable before sending the transaction also.

[hosseinimr93]

BTW, what's their criteria for not accepting new acceleration request until they find new block?

It seems that they stop accepting new transactions once they reach a certain size of transactions waiting to be mined freely.
Of course, nothing has been mentioned on their website and I don't know the exact amount. I just know that it should happen very rarely. ViaBTC has around 10% of the total hash rate and it's estimated that they mine 1 block in every ~ 100 minutes on average.

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?

They could accept more transactions, but it seems that they don't allocate the space of each block more than a certain amount to freely accelerated  transactions.

[Helena Yu]

That's called a competition, many many many people want their transactions to be confirmed, so the one who submit the TX ID not only yourself.

I'm just hoping the other miners want to offer free accelerator service instead of picking transactions that willing to overpaid fees.

Due to ordinal inscriptions, you need to be careful before create a transaction with low fees since we don't know when those people want to spam the network and make the fees suddenly went up.

[Lucius]

It doesn't make much sense to rely on this accelerator because the pressure on it is huge, whether it's bots or legitimate users of which there are probably thousands considering that everyone knows that this is the only free solution. In addition, Via pool has been finding very few blocks in recent days, and this continues today with only 2 blocks so far.

[Findingnemo]

It doesn't make much sense to rely on this accelerator because the pressure on it is huge, whether it's bots or legitimate users of which there are probably thousands considering that everyone knows that this is the only free solution. In addition, Via pool has been finding very few blocks in recent days, and this continues today with only 2 blocks so far.

ViaBTC mined only 8 blocks in the last 24 hours but I doubt it has anything to do with the free acceleration.

I am not relying on the accelerator and it used to take a couple of minutes at least for 100 humans to fill up the slots even when the traffic was at its high unless it was secured by bots that is the concern here.

That's called a competition, many many many people want their transactions to be confirmed, so the one who submit the TX ID not only yourself.

As mentioned above it takes atleast few minutes, so this isn't actually due to people submitting their transactions to be accelerated.

I'm just hoping the other miners want to offer free accelerator service instead of picking transactions that willing to overpaid fees.

Not really, no one like to give freebies and viabtc does it so that they can advertise their paid acceleration service to more users.

Due to ordinal inscriptions, you need to be careful before create a transaction with low fees since we don't know when those people want to spam the network and make the fees suddenly went up.

Using RBF is always an option to tackle the sudden spike in the fee but Viabtc has been useful for making TX with less than 500 bytes and not really in any hurry over paying $20-$40 in the fees.

[JeromeTash]

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.

I think it's a visual bug. I think I saw the same thing probably yesterday, but it cleared off after one hour

As for the free transaction slots. I saw support responding to some users who were having the same concern. The support told them that the 100 slots get taken up with in 4 seconds lately, which means someone or some people are using bots.

[BitcoinPanther]

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.

I somehow got lucky to time free slots open for acceleration the other day (3 days ago).  I am able to insert my pending transaction to get accelerated.  It was 48  free slots when I sent my request to accelerate, it does not take that long to have this free slots consumed. 

It looks like someone had built a bot to be able to claim the free slots of Viabtc since after that lucky instance, I am unable to timed the free slot of Viabtc to accelerate transactions.

[FinneysTrueVision]

I was also under the impression that they were only allowing paid accelerations but over the holiday break, when there was less activity on the network, I was able to get 2 transactions accelerated.

It seems that they stop accepting new transactions once they reach a certain size of transactions waiting to be mined freely.
Of course, nothing has been mentioned on their website and I don't know the exact amount. I just know that it should happen very rarely. ViaBTC has around 10% of the total hash rate and it's estimated that they mine 1 block in every ~ 100 minutes on average.

This is quite interesting. I have noticed a few times that there are slots available at completely random times when you would expect them to already be taken. I guess they sometimes pause it for a while once they've reached a certain quota and restart it when they find a new block.

[nakamura12]

It could be possible that they created a bot to abuse their service as you have said that's why it is nearly impossible to use their free transaction accelerator. I said that it is nearly impossible since I don't know if they really stop giving free tx accelerator or all the free tx accelerator are used right away since you know that the mempool this time is congested. When I visited viabtc, I always saw it's already in 0 free submission. If it's a visual bug then I don't know the reason behind it but I haven't heard or notice about viabtc having a visual bug on their website.

[JeromeTash]

When I visited viabtc, I always saw it's already in 0 free submission. If it's a visual bug then I don't know the reason behind it but I haven't heard or notice about viabtc having a visual bug on their website.

The visual bug was probably about the 19 free transaction acceleration slots that were displayed for almost an hour and yet when one tried to enter their TX I did, an error "Submissions are beyond limit. Please try later."

[nakamura12]

The visual bug was probably about the 19 free transaction acceleration slots that were displayed for almost an hour and yet when one tried to enter their TX I did, an error "Submissions are beyond limit. Please try later."

Got it. Well, I always see 0 free submissions in viabtc so maybe it's really a visual bug when accessing viabtc at that time. As I said, I always see 0 free submission on their website and I haven't been able to use their free service since the day where the transaction fee increase a lot. Well, there are other free tx accelerator I used but I am not sure if it really works or not. I didn't read the last post that's why I am wrong but I wasn't going to say about it but I have seen the image and read some part of it and didn't read all of it because I am doing other important things.

[sunsilk]

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.

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.

Alright folks, I thought that it's not going to move anymore and here's the update. So from this,

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.

To this, @11:35PM forum time.

Total Accelerated Transactions

703845

I just thought that there won't be added transactions anymore but yeah, you guys are right that these ordinal spammers and bots are also taking these free acceleration. They don't want to miss anything from this market, don't they?

[Findingnemo]

To this, @11:35PM forum time.

Total Accelerated Transactions

703845

The numbers are adding up every hour and especially I noticed the numbers changes at the refresh time after loading for more than usual which is when the attacks happens and fill all the spots before anyone can submit.

But I don't think the number of total accelerated TXs number represents only the freely accelerated TXs, it must be sum of both paid and free.

[Sandra_hakeem]

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've been trying VIAbtc for the past 3 weeks and it's not working.. I think they started manipulated bots to confirm transactions just to evade the fees. I kept the consistency on an hourly intervals and it failed me throughout...
I just hope they've fixed up Thier captcha, or atleast increased the slot for free spins just as you said .. someone said there's actually a way out instead of accelerating it manually; how's that done though?? Running an RBF?  that's the only thing I'm thinking of RN...

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

[JeromeTash]

I haven't been able to use their free service since the day where the transaction fee increase a lot.

Someone is probably abusing their free service by using a bot, since their captcha challenge is so easy.

Well, there are other free tx accelerator I used but I am not sure if it really works or not.

I hope you are not referring to transaction rebroadcasting services masquerading as transactions accelerators. They are so many of them. The only working free transaction accelerator that I know at the moment is probably ViaBTC.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

Or maybe viaBTC is pushing for their paid and premium services right now?

Because I also can't get any free submissions as it is always full no matter what the time is or wait till :59 and put your transaction ID. Or just like what the rest of you guys think, it's not a haven of bot as well, taking advantage of the free services.

Last time that I got mine is like around December 20k'ish and after that, no more free slots.

[JeromeTash]

Or maybe viaBTC is pushing for their paid and premium services right now?

No They are not

Just look for any block mined by ViaBTC and count the number of transactions below the recommended fee rate if you have some time. You will notice they are slightly over 100
Here is their latest mined block, slightly over an hour ago - https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000002beabfdd166d33179b9c526d876488e0e6199632b54bd

[adaseb]

Yeah i've been trying for the last 2 days. For the past month, it was always possible to get a transaction in. However now, everytime I try, in a split second its over the limit.

I tried everything, including clicking the submit captcha button 1 second before the new hour starts. Tried 5 seconds prior and after and same error.

Anyone know if you need to submit the Transaction ID after the start of the new hour and solve the captha? or can you submit the transaction ID before the start of the hour and click the Captcha solved Submit button after the new hour starts?

Everything I tried hasnt worked.

[Antotena]

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.

I think they still do. If you are seeing this post notification, between now and the next 1 hour. The website usually experience low traffic as compared to in the afternoon, even before these ordinals took over the platform with bots, I don't know why but often I don't get chance in their free service until midnight like this. Give it a try between 11:00 pm forum time or 11:59 pm forum time. Just put eye on the seconds of your time and as soon as it start, paste your transaction withing the first 30 seconds, it should go through.

But what is the solution for this Ordinals? Are we going to continue to compete with these guys, they literally the reason why Viabtc service has increased, imagine where in the world only 100 transaction are allow for free transaction boost, I think this guys should be allow to used BSC or ERC to spam because I'm not sure if this is madness or adoption, the dream of pair to pair network is dying before our eyes.

[adaseb]

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.

I think they still do. If you are seeing this post notification, between now and the next 1 hour. The website usually experience low traffic as compared to in the afternoon, even before these ordinals took over the platform with bots, I don't know why but often I don't get chance in their free service until midnight like this. Give it a try between 11:00 pm forum time or 11:59 pm forum time. Just put eye on the seconds of your time and as soon as it start, paste your transaction withing the first 30 seconds, it should go through.

But what is the solution for this Ordinals? Are we going to continue to compete with these guys, they literally the reason why Viabtc service has increased, imagine where in the world only 100 transaction are allow for free transaction boost, I think this guys should be allow to used BSC or ERC to spam because I'm not sure if this is madness or adoption, the dream of pair to pair network is dying before our eyes.

It will not work trust me. I have tried and timing it to the exact second and its always filled up. And you don't need to wait until midnight, its every hour.

Normally at the beginning of the hour, there would be 100 slots which open up, and slowly they would go down as people submitted their TX ID. However right now as soon as the clock hits top of the hour, immediately 100 slots are all filled up.

Getting tired of all this Ordinal stuff. Basically need to spend $10-15 just to get an 1 input and 1 output transaction to confirm at the moment. With this ViaBTC it only cost $1.