Definition of Chain Spam Chain spam is a tx on the blockchain containing data such as text, pics, audio, or video. A tx on the blockchain is not spam if, in as few bytes as possible, it does one of only two things, and nothing else: (1) transfers value on L1 or (2) sweeps funds from an HTLC or similar address created while trying to transfer value on an L2. The term "value" means the "value" field in L1 BTC utxos, and "transferring" it means reducing the amount in that field in the sender's utxos and increasing it in the recipient's utxos.

It is neat to look at the reasons why Bitcoin Core sometimes loses users. Notably, outside of the Crowdstrike outage, we are in the midst of the largest ever downswing in Bitcoin Core usage.

There are two reasons to consider switching to Ocean Mining. One is that you can help fight the spam there. Another is that you make more money.

It is easy to fake the upswing in Knots nodes But the downswing in Core nodes? That's hard to fake. You have to *convince* people to stop running it so that they stop showing up in the charts. Looks like a lot of people are getting convinced!

New Core propaganda just dropped! They're learning to meme after all

Current situation