Interesting.
Found this answer in the twitter threads: https://twitter.com/vazertuche/status/1621709291471216640
Speculations, but still; might be it? More investigations probably incoming.
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this is just normal transactions, not "burning blockspace and bloating the UTXO set"
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No such thing as spam on the blockchain
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I'd ask Muun wallet ;)
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Indeed:
Mystery solved!
These are submarine swaps made by Muun Wallet
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A "spam filter" is a ridiculous statement. Nobody has the right to denote what garbage is on the BItcoin blockchain.
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Fees go brrrrrr
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The link for this post uses a read-only front-end for Twitter, which can be easier to read for viewing a full Twitter thread. The Tweet that kicked off the thread is:
While everyone's distracted by jpegs, something else is burning blockspace and bloating the UTXO set.
Over the past month, it may have used up to 2% of block capacity, created 0.4% of the current UTXO set, and fueled the recent spike in P2TR outputs.
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For additional comments on this, see also another post found here on SN where the discovery was made that Muun submarine swaps are responsible:
Muun wallet is bloating the chain with submarine swaps #131428 https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1621893734156623872 [Nitter]
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