Farley on Nostr: Mempool is down to just 3K transactions—one of the lowest levels in a long while. ...
Mempool is down to just 3K transactions—one of the lowest levels in a long while. Spam attacks only work if they can choke real users, but when Lightning absorbs small payments and exchanges dominate Layer-1 efficiency, there’s no oxygen left for spammers to suffocate the network. They’re essentially setting money on fire, only for Bitcoin to get leaner, faster, and more resilient in response.
Cannibalization in real time. Every sat they burn is just feeding miners and speeding up Bitcoin’s efficiency, while Lightning and batching ensure that actual users aren’t even affected. They aren’t just losing the game—they’re being consumed by it.
It’s almost poetic: they thought they were jamming the system, but the system adapted and turned their attack into fuel for its own evolution.
Cannibalization in real time. Every sat they burn is just feeding miners and speeding up Bitcoin’s efficiency, while Lightning and batching ensure that actual users aren’t even affected. They aren’t just losing the game—they’re being consumed by it.
It’s almost poetic: they thought they were jamming the system, but the system adapted and turned their attack into fuel for its own evolution.