Last week news.Bitcoin.com reported on a community-driven Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network stress test, where a group that runs a website called ‘BCH Stress Test Day’ plans to process millions of minimum fee transactions all at once in one day. Furthermore, the team of developers working on the project wants everyone in the BCH community to participate. This week Spendbch.io, with the help of the open source project Bitbox, released a tool that allows anyone to engage in a cooperative effort to ‘spam’ the network with a blitz of transactions.
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Spendbch.io Launches an Open Source Node.js App for Stress Testing the BCH Network
The Bitcoin Cash blockchain has a maximum block capacity size of 32 MB, which is exceptionally larger than many other distributed ledgers today. The vast size of these blocks is designed to allow significant transaction throughput. Before this past May, the BCH chain had 8 MB blocks and miners had processed blocks between 2-8 MB during that period of time. Viabtc processed one 8 MB block that cleared over 37,000 transactions at once. Now that the block size is 32 MB, the community wants to put the network to the test by sending an enormous amount of transactions at the BCH chain all at once in a 24-hour period.
Bitcoin Cash transaction count sees some spikes. Data collected from Fork.lol.
In order to help BCH Stress Test Day (BCHSTD) this week the Spendbch.io team launched an open source node.js app for stress testing the BCH network. The rudimentary tool was created with the BCH developer toolkit, Bitbox, and the team says the protocol is a “starting point” towards the 1
