ViaBTC free slots available [1 Jan 2024]

[RapTarX]

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."

Did you read hosseinimr93's explanation above? It's not a visual bug; they have a limitation as explained by hosseinimr93. They don't want to fill the whole block with a very low fee while they can get far better fee from the block mined.

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

LOL. I guess it's unlikely that they are trying to manipulate this. Looking at the paid accelerator fees, I doubt anyone thinking of paying a low fee, would be using such a paid service & they know that as well.

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[Gladitorcomeback]

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.

Oh, This is not good at all. I tried also Viabtc some days ago for acceleration of my transaction but I got error "" submission is beyond limit ""

Then I tried to check after hour complete as only 100 acceleration limit but I got same message. Their paid service is expensive and I have to pay 200$ for accelerating 240$ value.

Viabtc is the only best platform providing free accelarator service? I get so many sites but nothing happened after successfully acceleration done.

[hosseinimr93]

Their paid service is expensive and I have to pay 200$ for accelerating 240$ value.

It may worth mentioning that the fee they charge you for accelerating your transaction doesn't depend on the amount of bitcoin you send.

Viabtc is the only best platform providing free accelarator service? I get so many sites but nothing happened after successfully acceleration done.

ViaBTC was the only working free accelerator until bots made it useless.
All other websites that claim to accelerate transactions freely, are either scammers or just rebroadcast transactions.

[AHOYBRAUSE]

Thanks for making this thread and the explanations!
I was wondering yesterday what is going on at the site where you submit the free acceleration.
Thought maybe there is an error or something or because of the increasing mempool the spots are gone within seconds.

Well too bad the option is getting basically abused now, I used it several times in the past and it bailed me out of serious being stuck situations.
Are there any other sites like this one?

[Charmekkd]

It would also make sense if someone created a bot and took advantage of this situation for profit. Because the last few days from morning to evening I was waiting for 100 entries on viabtc, but strangely I didn't see a single entry that I could use. Even though at that time I always checked every hour. But in the end I still didn't get 1 accelerator quota.

There are several possibilities for all this to happen. The first possibility is that viabtc has stopped the service temporarily. The second possibility is that there are people who create bots and use up the accelerator quota.

[Antotena]

It would also make sense if someone created a bot and took advantage of this situation for profit. Because the last few days from morning to evening I was waiting for 100 entries on viabtc, but strangely I didn't see a single entry that I could use. Even though at that time I always checked every hour. But in the end I still didn't get 1 accelerator quota.

How do you intend to do this, I think only a programmer will understand this better but what about the speed. I'm not a prhrmmer but if this guys take the chance in less than a second, your bots should be really super fast like speed of light to stay ahead of this bad guys.

To say that they don't even need this like small people does but they spoil opportunity for the less privileged users because I don't know how anyone like us with $10 worth of bitcoin in a wallet to spend but the fee is 2 times.the amount I have on my wallet, it doesn't make sense. When they know they want ordinals and want high profits, they should be ready to spend anything on the fees and not disrupt the free accelerator we have been managing for a while.

There are several possibilities for all this to happen. The first possibility is that viabtc has stopped the service temporarily. The second possibility is that there are people who create bots and use up the accelerator quota.

It was confirmed on this thread 2 days ago that they still function but it seems the ordinals lovers has decided to hijack it  now and the common people don't get the opportunity again. If it's now abuse, I think it's high time they stop the service for now and let everyone rest. It's good to know that the service is down than it's been abuse by some bad groups.

[JeromeTash]

Did you read hosseinimr93's explanation above? It's not a visual bug; they have a limitation as explained by hosseinimr93. They don't want to fill the whole block with a very low fee while they can get far better fee from the block mined.

I know what I am talking about because the very next hour even before viaBTC mined any block, the 19 free transactions that were even no existent disappeared 
I kept following and refreshing the page every few minutes at that time when this happened

Of course, I read every explanation before adding in mine.

[adaseb]

It works again. Just got a transaction in. 5 minutes after the hour and there are still 60 spots left or so.

So if you need to get some urgent transaction in then do so now before the bots return. There is a good chance the bots are taking a day off for New Years and will be back at it in a few hours. Either that or the admin somehow banned these Ordinal transactions from spamming their TX accelerator.

[Findingnemo]

It works again. Just got a transaction in. 5 minutes after the hour and there are still 60 spots left or so.

So if you need to get some urgent transaction in then do so now before the bots return. There is a good chance the bots are taking a day off for New Years and will be back at it in a few hours. Either that or the admin somehow banned these Ordinal transactions from spamming their TX accelerator.

Well, that's good news and probably ViaBTC stopped them temporarily I guess but as of now there are no free spots but its been 20 minutes since the refresh time so I guess I will confirm about the available spots if it's still there in the next set.

Also, Viabtc pool's number of mined blocks in 24hr increased now compared to the past few days.



Edit:

Yep, there are indeed spots to fill now. 39 spots after 12:01 so the time window to submit your acceleration is just 90 seconds to 120 seconds from refresh time.

[Adbitco]

hosseinimr93 Is absolutely correct because few days ago i tried making withdrawal and after which i opened viabtc to submit my txt id to accelerate it but i waited for over 24hrs without me having any even single space to submit my id to join the next 100 free acceleration, I also sensed that there is a compromise somewhere because earlier last week i used the service successfully and it confirmed within the next 4 hrs with actually a low fee. But I am shocked to see that they are spamming it with their bots even as capchta was included and how come those bots passes verification.

[Coyster]

It works again. Just got a transaction in. 5 minutes after the hour and there are still 60 spots left or so.

Maybe those using bots are enjoying the holidays. It is good that people can use viabtc free accelerator again (at least for now), i don't know how long this "break" will last, and it is possible that in the next few hours they'll be back again and all the spots will be filled so quickly.

Either that or the admin somehow banned these Ordinal transactions from spamming their TX accelerator.

I don't think viabtc will ban anybody from using their transaction accelerator, even if they are ordinal spammers, they might change the captcha pattern to make it difficult for bots, but apparently they have not done that. Thus i guess the spammers are taking a break.

[FinneysTrueVision]

This is something new I hadn't seen before. At the beginning of the hour I tried to submit a transaction but when I clicked the confirmation button there was a bit of a delay followed by an error message of "timeout of 10000ms exceeded".



Perhaps due to so many requests happening at the same time it triggers a rate limit that causes submissions to fail. Refreshing the site a few minutes later showed that a few slots were still available. It might be just a matter of time before the bots adapt to this but in the meantime there are brief periods where it is possible for actual humans to use the service.

[Kelward]

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.

Most of us thought the same that viaBTC had stopped their free transactions services, thanks to Hosseinimr93, for giving the clarification that they've not stopped but that it's been abused by ordinal scammers, and you that testified that you were lucky to have been vigilant and was able to secure one spot. The question now is since the free services is still ongoing but the system is now hijacked, what is the next step? We sit back and wait till they've had their fill or till congestion normalizes and we go back to doing transactions with normal fees?

[LoyceV]

They have FREE submissions available again (70 left after 5 minutes), but now it tells me "Sorry, your TXID doesn't exist" on the FREE service. The Paid service recognizes my transaction. It fits the size and fee requirements.

[Findingnemo]

They have FREE submissions available again (70 left after 5 minutes), but now it tells me "Sorry, your TXID doesn't exist" on the FREE service. The Paid service recognizes my transaction. It fits the size and fee requirements.

I picked a random TX from mempool.space and submitted it successfully via free acceleration. 20 spots left even after 40 minutes is something never happened in a long time, probably they adjusted their requirements to scrutinize the spam TXs from abusing free acceleration.

[Lucius]

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Same thing with me, I selected one random transaction and it was successfully accelerated. It seems that many had a rough start to the new year and are still sleeping, so the number of 100 available accelerations is available almost throughout the hour.

I don't know why @LoyceV gets a message that his TXID doesn't exist, maybe because mempool currently purging transactions < 23.1 sat/vB and free services don't accept them for that reason. If he increased the fee to 25 sat/vB, maybe then he would succeed.

[LoyceV]

I tried again (5 hours later), and it works Fees are also dropping a bit (but still high).

[hosseinimr93]

I picked a random TX from mempool.space and submitted it successfully via free acceleration. 20 spots left even after 40 minutes is something never happened in a long time, probably they adjusted their requirements to scrutinize the spam TXs from abusing free acceleration.

I did the same and was able to submit a transaction to their free accelerator successfully.
I even submitted an ordinal transaction with the same pattern as ordinal transactions submitted by the bots in the past days and it worked. (I am sorry I helped a network spammer)

I don't know whether bots stopped abusing ViaBTC free accelerator or it's ViaBTC that stopped them somehow, but the requirements seem to be still same as before.

[sokani]

This is something new I hadn't seen before. At the beginning of the hour I tried to submit a transaction but when I clicked the confirmation button there was a bit of a delay followed by an error message of "timeout of 10000ms exceeded".

That's was how mine came out the first time I submitted it, after a second submission it displayed transaction accelerating and got confirmed. I had a transaction that had been stocked in the mempool for 6 days, I've bumped it but the fee wasn't enough to get it picked by a miner. Yesterday, I just felt like giving ViaBTC free accelerator a try after many previous attempts proved abortive and my transaction got accepted and added to a block.

[Mpamaegbu]

So I thought they stopped offering free TX acceleration at first but I couldn't find anywhere that they stopped offering free TX acceleration.

Even when they assumedly offered it, I think it took a great deal of time for pool to pick it up. I've said it times without number that this congestion thing is going to be the bane of Bitcoin if it's not speedily dealt with. The current backlog has lingered beyond anyone's endurance level.

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

If they haven't blocked loopholes that could expose their vulnerability, then they should be blamed for exposing themselves. We know hackers/scammers get more creative when their point of interest becomes lucrative. Bitcoin is getting more attention. Everything that revolves around it is also picking up that attention.