Metaplex Bot Tax

The solana network gained a lot of bad press because there have been several total network outages in the recent past. The last one just being less than than 2 weeks past at creation of this dashboard. The core issue is not an attack but bots trying to gain an advantage over each others trying to mint a NFT using a on-chain program called "Candy Machine". The advantage is gained by sending massive amounts of transactions trying to mint. All but one of those will fail, but the more transactions you send the higher is the chance of you being the minter. During the last downtime at approximately 20:30 UTC on Saturday, April 30, the solana network received a total of 6 million transactions per second which was too much for it to handle. Block creation stopped and it took 7 hours for the network to recover. In order to prevent this from happening again a mechanism was added so that wallets that try to complete an invalid transaction will now be penalized with 0.01 SOL. This dashboard gives an overview over how often this penalty has been collected and which addresses were amongst the heaviest botters.