Spam to Secure and Fasten Up the Tangle
Spamming transactions helps the IOTA network to become faster. The IOTA Spam Fund was created to incentivize spamming on the IOTA protocol by rewarding spammers with a small amount of iotas (donated entirely by our great IOTA community) to cover the operational costs of doing the proof-of-work. Over 2,000 users have signed up.
The IOTA Spam Fund offers a custom command-line spamming tool (isf-jclient) written in Java which can be used both for rewarded iotaspam.com spam as well as not-rewardable offline spam (allowing the user to personalize the spam transaction address, tag and messages). It is highly scalable in terms of TPS due to powerful features such as: