[throwaway290]

Note that the growth is not just in Germany. Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland also show jumps (however in absolute terms they are still much smaller). I would not rule out it's people or bots connecting from third country/countries through VPNs based in Europe... for whatever reason.

[doubleorseven]

VPSs in germany are much cheaper. But I'm guessing this increase is paid with crypto or debit cards so pin pointing it to a specific provider like hetzner is hard

[rurban]

Hetzner used by criminals would be my guess.

[ncr100]

Is it a bug in a client that accidentally spawns sub-clients?