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The original was posted on /r/monero by /u/vapor-ware on 2024-03-12 18:32:55.

There have been estimates of how big the attack is, but I think lately it's about 100k extra transactions per day.

Many people are calling it an attack but it could also be a number of other things going on, ranging from research to someone not knowing what they're doing or trying to churn or incorrectly implementing a churn script without realising that it's costing them dearly etc etc

What are the favourite theories as to what the cause/motivation could be?

Could it be a benevolent volunteer adding lots of transactions to the block chain to make it harder to trace monero?

Or, if it is an attack, could it be mitigated by asking volunteers to add more transactions to the block chain to make the attacker's transactions account for less of the over all traffic?