Are we stress testing again? - page 28.

scarsbergholden

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Quote from: guitarplinker on July 06, 2015, 10:01:50 PM

Looks like the transaction spam might be slowing down a little bit, I'm only seeing a few transactions per second now. Some serious strain on the network though, looks like the peak transactions per second was 212 (!) according to this page.

is looks likes things have slowed down, i wonder if they are trying to break the 200k transaction mark has all time high, i dont know if it was just me but i saw more the 200 transactions per second i thought is way 457 at peak.

guitarplinker

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Looks like the transaction spam might be slowing down a little bit, I'm only seeing a few transactions per second now. Some serious strain on the network though, looks like the peak transactions per second was 212 (!) according to this page.

OROBTC

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OK, just for my own fun (?), education, and entertainment, I sent a small amount of BTC between addresses, and included a 0.0006 ($0.16) miner's fee. Let's see if it goes through and gets confirmed anytime soon. (I was able to get on blockchain.info after trying a few times)

If it does NOT get confirmed in a reasonable amount of time, then that throws into some doubt the utility of the Bitcoin Ecosystem while under this attack...

EDIT:

Transaction confirmed.

I guess it is only very low fees NOT getting confirmed.

OROBTC

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10:27 PM US ET

I come back after some 5 hours, and see that things have not improved. My earlier transaction was receiving a small payment with approx. $0.00 as mining fee, that was many hours ago. Still unconfirmed.

I had this idea of trying to send $2.00 or so to one of my addresses, and pay $0.05 to see what happens, but I can't even log on to blockchain.info (my "Trx Wallet") to even try that.

Ugh.

***** Perhaps an answer might be to ban payments of under $0.01 and/or fees under, say, BTC0.0002? *****

achow101

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Quote from: ChetnotAtkins on July 06, 2015, 08:55:18 PM

2. Either tradeblock.com or statoshi.info are behind this. They always show by far the largest values (tx/s and mempool size) and thus are always the sites that are referenced during these tests. It is a tremendous publicity for them.

I highly doubt that statoshi.info is behind this because the guy that runs the site probably doesn't have the money or infracstructure to carry out this prolonged spam attack. Possibly tradeblock, but still a stretch. Why would they want to anyways?

Also, I think statoshi's data is more reliable than tradeblock's because it reflects the mempool of miners. Tradeblock's seems to be every unconfirmed transaction broadcasted which will include transactions that are dropped by nodes and miners.

Sitarow

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ChetnotAtkins

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No idea. Coinwalleteu was never heard from.

I have two conspiracy theories:

1. Blocksize politics

2. Either tradeblock.com or statoshi.info are behind this. They always show by far the largest values (tx/s and mempool size) and thus are always the sites that are referenced during these tests. It is a tremendous publicity for them.

knight22

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Anyone knows who is doing this stress test this time?

ChetnotAtkins

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Wow 50000 unconfirmed transactions. This is really going to take a day to clear.

Gab0

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50.000

achow101

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Quote from: ChetnotAtkins on July 06, 2015, 08:08:03 PM

blockchain.info filters transactions.

Look here: https://tradeblock.com/blockchain/

Already 45000 unconfirmed Transactions, damn!

What transactions does it filter? Why would it filter transactions at all?

ChetnotAtkins

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Is there actually a reachable mempool size that could seriously disrupt the normal operations of network clients?

scarsbergholden

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Just went over 500 transactions/second again. This is the past 5 mins

wow is getting pushed hard, i wonder how long is the 500 transactions per second would be running for, i was going to pay for something now i guess I'll just wait.

TeamButtcoin

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Quote from: hcf27 on July 06, 2015, 08:02:55 PM

where can you see the 40k unconfirmed transactions, I can only see 6k on https://blockchain.info/en/unconfirmed-transactions

https://tradeblock.com/blockchain/

and its 45k now

ChetnotAtkins

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blockchain.info filters transactions.

Look here: https://tradeblock.com/blockchain/

Already 45000 unconfirmed transactions, damn!

hcf27

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where can you see the 40k unconfirmed transactions, I can only see 6k on https://blockchain.info/en/unconfirmed-transactions

Pathi

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I notice it is taking a long time to open my wallet also. (Bitcoin core) It is just stuck on verifying blocks for 30 minutes or so. Usually only takes 10 minutes or so.

ChetnotAtkins

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Why would this value not show on the standard graph?

They really want to know it this time! This backlog will take a day to clear.

ChetnotAtkins

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Yes we may never know.

40000 unconfirmed transactions! Insane.

ChetnotAtkins

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Spam ramped up to full power again, over 600 transactions/second at peak, still over 100/second right now.

Over 37,000 unconfirmed transactions, 30+ mb in the mempool.

Yes this one is interesting again. It seems they improved their server setup over the last trials

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