The Bitcoin network took a hitting yesterday every bit CoinWallet ran its “stress pre-test” for well-nigh xxx minutes resulting inwards a “2-day delay as well as a fifty MB backlog” according to CoinWallet CCO James Wilson.
Reports are nonetheless coming inwards simply it seems similar most bitcoin exchanges as well as wallet companies were able to accept the exam inwards its stride.
Wilson also told Bitcoin Magazine today that the fellowship volition live running a major stress exam on the Bitcoin network on Thursday, September x starting at x a.m. GMT.
The travel of these stress tests is to come across if the Bitcoin network tin ship away grip a barrage of rattling modest transactions that volition human activity similar a DDOS laid on simply most observers come across this every bit a “political” controversy as well as CoinWallet’s contribution to the ongoing block size debate.
When Wilson confirmed that CoinWallet ran a preliminary pretest yesterday, he noted:
“The pre-test lasted alone well-nigh 30 minutes as well as created a 2-day backlog. As you lot tin ship away imagine, September tenth volition indeed live stressful.”
CoinWallet volition live analyzing what happened yesterday as well as what the reply was as well as volition allow us know the results inwards a few days.
The exam is role of the ongoing ground that is dominating the bitcoin infinite every bit companies as well as communities weigh inwards on dissimilar solutions to the Bitcoin block size.
On September 12 as well as 13, the starting fourth dimension of 2 Bitcoin scalability workshops “for Bitcoin’s technology scientific discipline as well as academic community” volition live held inwards Montreal, Canada, sponsored yesteryear a dozen digital currency companies, to endeavor as well as give away consensus on the best block size for bitcoin.
CoinWallet (which is a UK-based Bitcoin mining as well as wallet) has said inwards the yesteryear that they are concerned that the electrical flow block size is inadequate to grip the book of transactions inwards a growing bitcoin market.
As reported final week, Bitcoin exchanges as well as wallet companies are taking steps to educate as well as most that nosotros talked to seemed gear upwardly as well as able to grip the expected disruption.
