These "stress tests" are a little dumb, and nothing more than a propaganda stunt. We all know what the limits of bitcoin are, and the core devs definitely do.
It's like me putting a pot of water on the stove at 150C, and saying, "see, it boils! the stress test proved itself!".
It defeats the purpose. Those conducting these tests know exactly what the limits of the network are, so obviously if you push a test over those limits it's going to fail. Same as if I said I'm going to "stress test" aluminum, put it under a temperature of more than 660C, then say, "see, it melted, hence failed the test!". Well, I knew from the onset that was going to be the result.
no....
its like a bunch of grumpy maids saying that the pot of water wont boil until 2000 people breath on it and generate enough heat and prove there is a 2000 strong demand for hot water to make coffee...
the stress tests are that if one person making just 1 transaction a second, can cause other peoples tx's to be bottle-necked and delayed.... then waiting for a year until the demand actually forces a upgrade is just waiting for the problem before looking for the best solution...
it is like letting someone sodomize you in your own bed.. before setting rules to not let anal lovers follow you home.
did you know that something like this happened before..
many core coders didnt want to strengthen and expand bitcoin to cope with change.. and it took satoshidice to spam the network for the coders to then stop sitting on their hands and implement code to decrease the spam..
most coders think they are gods. that their code is perfect and does not need changing.. it always takes outsiders to prove them wrong..
to me coders are like people who wont lock their doors and allow themselves to be violated a few times before thinking about whats needed to secure things.
