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CoinWallet: September Bitcoin Stress Test Could Create Backlog

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CoinWallet- September Bitcoin Stress Test Could Create Backlog.

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Bitcoin company CoinWallet is set to conduct a stress test on the bitcoin network in September and warned that this could create a 30-day backlog. For now, the company hasn’t set a specific date for the stress test but also noted that the results could support calls for a hard fork in the network.

CoinWallet’s previous stress test achieved only 15% of the output due to a crash in its servers. The company plans to flood the system with countless small transactions, enough to fill two blocks every minute then send out slightly larger transactions.

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“We feel that our tests might prove to be the catalyst that propels the core devs and miners to implement the required hard fork that is desperately needed,” CoinWallet mentioned.

According to a CoinWallet representative, the process to set up the bitcoin stress test could prove to be very complicated. The test will require reconsolidating 150 bitcoin in existence on the wallets. CoinWallet said the second phase of the test will be to use 20 cloud-hosted servers to send bitcoin payments in amounts of 0.00001 to thousands of its addresses at random, all in transactions that are also approximately 3KB each.

For now, the bitcoin network is faced with two different versions of the software. There’s the Bitcoin Core and the newly-launched Bitcoin XT, which was developed by Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn to allow developers and miners to opt out of the version that limits the block size to 1MB. The bitcoin block size debate has been going on for quite some time and the lack of a governing body in the industry has made it difficult to come up with a solution.

With that, the decision is left to the entire bitcoin network, making miners choose between Bitcoin XT and Bitcoin Core then shifting to the version that is run by majority of the computers in the system.

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  1. Gluntrod says:
    10 years ago

    So, are those at XT willing to stop their efforts if this is handled smoothly by the current setup, or do we see more attacks on the blockchain in the future? I may be more open to the XT fork if I could find complete transparency on what Gavin and his team are doing. Until then I consider this a hostile takeover attempt.

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    • thirdalbum says:
      10 years ago

      If this is handled smoothly by Bitcoin Core, I shall eat a hat.

      Expect a month of total chaos.

      Although I understand that CoinWallet is hurting Bitcoin to encourage people to switch to XT and save Bitcoin, I have to say it’s an irresponsible stunt.

      As for your comment about transparency, XT’s developers are being completely open and transparent with the community. We need more capacity in the Bitcoin network and we need it very soon. A block size increase is something we can do while a “perfect” solution is developed.

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      • cohagen says:
        10 years ago

        Better get your mustard ready, makes hats go down easier.

        Reply
  2. votingmachine says:
    10 years ago

    Well if that doesn’t convince people to support a bitcoin transaction increase, nothing will.

    This stress test is nothing but large scale transactions. Anyone COULD do it. They are using 150 bitcoins which is $30,000 or so. And transacting many small transactions. And the bitcoin network will be unable to handle all of the transactions. It is a DDoS sort of attack, and it will pretty much screw up any ordinary transactions being placed.

    I think that it should be pretty convincing. Either increase or die whenever a DDoS atack happens.

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  3. DougNJ says:
    10 years ago

    The miners and full-nodes could use a shake-up prior to block 420k. I am interested to see who remains mining after block 840k when the block reward is 3.125BTC. Will those that operate Full-Nodes ever get monetary incentive?

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  1. Gluntrod says:
    10 years ago

    So, are those at XT willing to stop their efforts if this is handled smoothly by the current setup, or do we see more attacks on the blockchain in the future? I may be more open to the XT fork if I could find complete transparency on what Gavin and his team are doing. Until then I consider this a hostile takeover attempt.

    Reply
    • thirdalbum says:
      10 years ago

      If this is handled smoothly by Bitcoin Core, I shall eat a hat.

      Expect a month of total chaos.

      Although I understand that CoinWallet is hurting Bitcoin to encourage people to switch to XT and save Bitcoin, I have to say it’s an irresponsible stunt.

      As for your comment about transparency, XT’s developers are being completely open and transparent with the community. We need more capacity in the Bitcoin network and we need it very soon. A block size increase is something we can do while a “perfect” solution is developed.

      Reply
      • cohagen says:
        10 years ago

        Better get your mustard ready, makes hats go down easier.

        Reply
  2. votingmachine says:
    10 years ago

    Well if that doesn’t convince people to support a bitcoin transaction increase, nothing will.

    This stress test is nothing but large scale transactions. Anyone COULD do it. They are using 150 bitcoins which is $30,000 or so. And transacting many small transactions. And the bitcoin network will be unable to handle all of the transactions. It is a DDoS sort of attack, and it will pretty much screw up any ordinary transactions being placed.

    I think that it should be pretty convincing. Either increase or die whenever a DDoS atack happens.

    Reply
  3. DougNJ says:
    10 years ago

    The miners and full-nodes could use a shake-up prior to block 420k. I am interested to see who remains mining after block 840k when the block reward is 3.125BTC. Will those that operate Full-Nodes ever get monetary incentive?

    Reply

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