That's – interesting.

It's particularly interesting because even as I shrunk the time horizons on my query, these operations decreased in total volume, both standard and nonstandard, about as you would expect – but the transactions like this, with a different from and to account, became a larger proportion of those transactions in general.

Which leaves us with the question of what these things actually represent. I am willing to accept that some of them, particularly the smaller clusters, just represent a small bot host owner powering down their bots which gained SP one way or another. That's a perfectly normal sort of activity, even if I'm not particularly on board with how useful bots are compared to how abusive they can be.

It's the ridiculously large clusters, with dozens to hundreds of nodes, that concern me. They have enough accounts in them that they could probably keep a number of them rolling over every week and generate a consistent payoff almost daily assuming that they could continue to farm the SP somehow.

An extremely small number of accounts is responsible for 1/3 (or more, depending on how we split it) of the this particular type of transaction of transactions which occurs on the blockchain every day. That seems concerning to me.

I suppose the next step is to try and figure out what these things are doing, if anyone cares.