On the nineteenth of September 2019 the Litecoin community noticed one other spike in transactions being despatched, 48,582, in keeping with knowledge offered by bitinfocharts, breaking the prior yearly excessive on June 22 of 47,962.

It’s unclear what the underlying trigger behind the anomalous spike is however primarily based on different public knowledge, it doesn’t seem like one other mud assault per se. There was a rise in utilization within the few days prior that appear on preliminary look to be totally professional.

Utilizing Blockchair’s filters it appears to be like like there have been a number of suspect transactions in blocks 1704981, 1704984, 1705040, 1705035 and 1705021 to call however a number of, which every comprise transactions involving one enter and 100s of outputs. These don’t resemble typical mud assault transactions as the worth in every output is just too excessive at >0.01 LTC and they don’t seem to be constant. With out additional instruments to completely map and join these addresses its laborious to get a greater image of what’s occurring. At one level it seems to connect with an trade / service pockets that has been used miltiple instances throughout 2017–19.

There may be additionally a connection to this pockets: (M893qmrU3PSwTrDVU7Cn3K4zxUWPKBmZkr) which seems to be continuously spamming the community with tons of of transactions a day. Beginning again in April of 2019 this pockets has executed over 167,820 transactions to this point. But even this doesn’t observe typical behaviour because the addresses concerned seem like managed by the identical proprietor continuously separating and consolidating funds. It’s producing new addresses and filling all of them with pennies. That is supported by one other spike within the ‘despatched from’ addresses correlating on the identical day.

The day by day worth being despatched nevertheless, has remained fixed at round ~$350m day by day, a touch that this has not too long ago picked up tempo sufficient to be seen as such this anomoly just isn’t indicative of larger development on the community simply but.