Ok unless I'm getting hallucinations from watching all these transactions I think it's underway. 2200+ unconfirmed transactions and 1.15 mb in the mempool and only 5 minutes since the last block. We had like 5 blocks in 10 minutes before this which was keeping it at bay. I've been noticing lots of transactions that may be stress test with lots of inputs and outputs and exactly 0.01 btc being sent.
This is far from the results predicted by the OP for the first minutes of the "test". So something is likely wrong in their execution. 
Topic: Next level Bitcoin stress test -- June 29-30 13:00 GMT 2015 - page 13. (Read 16034 times)
TBH this test it's being executed poorly, and it's likely someone lobbying for the block size increase. However, this test could achieve the opposite if well executed, showing how the general infrastructure is not ready for 8Mb blocks, specially with a massively full mempool and nodes and miners crashing randomly.
Expecting this kind of "experiment" in the very near future with more funding and custom software for crafting and injecting transactions to the network.
That would definitely be interesting.
Expecting this kind of "experiment" in the very near future with more funding and custom software for crafting and injecting transactions to the network.
That would definitely be interesting.
It's about 11AM in my timezone as of this post, and as I recall they didn't start last week's stress test until sometime between 2p and 4p I think
Only noticed this thread now. Not this again... 
Although I see nobody clogging the network so far. Let's see where this goes...
Although I see nobody clogging the network so far. Let's see where this goes...
Come on Coinwallet.eu, why are you not sending out transactions?
Why would you even claim to perform this test if you don't actually conduct it? Is Coinwallet.eu simply trolling?
Why would you even claim to perform this test if you don't actually conduct it? Is Coinwallet.eu simply trolling?
Why not use the money to dig a few wells in Africa instead? It adds a little more to the wellness of the world.
Proving that Bitcoin is a broken mess despite how much power it wastes would be a much better net gain for society
Anyone with a modicum of awareness should know that it's not all that viable to continue as it is. No point in wasting further money when we know what'll happen.
My God I totally agree!
Damn, the thing i can think is why doing that?
Not cool that they would hype it up like this if it ended up being totally fake. My initial suspicion was they spent all their BTC on the first test and didn't want to admit it, maybe that's right.
There are a net 1,500 additional transactions in the mempool over the last ~20 minutes and two blocks were found in that time. I think it is pretty clear that they are still in the process of doing the test.
1500/20 wouldn't be out of the ordinary, also the transactions they are sending out should be easy to spot if you watch blockchain.info or whatever since they are all specifically crafted to use up the most data for the least amount of fees that the network will accept
It seems that most of the major block explorers are running extremely slow right now so that number may not be accurate (although this could just be my internet - other sites are running fine though)
But running the numbers, you are probably right as that works out to roughly 1.25 tx/second.
How can you tell whether the stress test is going on? I think it might be, but I'm not sure. I have seen a couple large transactions going on, but not at the speed I would expect the test to be creating them at.
Not cool that they would hype it up like this if it ended up being totally fake. My initial suspicion was they spent all their BTC on the first test and didn't want to admit it, maybe that's right.
There are a net 1,500 additional transactions in the mempool over the last ~20 minutes and two blocks were found in that time. I think it is pretty clear that they are still in the process of doing the test.
1500/20 wouldn't be out of the ordinary, also the transactions they are sending out should be easy to spot if you watch blockchain.info or whatever since they are all specifically crafted to use up the most data for the least amount of fees that the network will accept
Not cool that they would hype it up like this if it ended up being totally fake. My initial suspicion was they spent all their BTC on the first test and didn't want to admit it, maybe that's right.
There are a net 1,500 additional transactions in the mempool over the last ~20 minutes and two blocks were found in that time. I think it is pretty clear that they are still in the process of doing the test.
Every bitcoin node and miner user should just block your shitty spam servers.
Why not use the money to dig a few wells in Africa instead? It adds a little more to the wellness of the world.
Proving that Bitcoin is a broken mess despite how much power it wastes would be a much better net gain for society
Anyone with a modicum of awareness should know that it's not all that viable to continue as it is. No point in wasting further money when we know what'll happen.
Why not use the money to dig a few wells in Africa instead? It adds a little more to the wellness of the world.
Proving that Bitcoin is a broken mess despite how much power it wastes would be a much better net gain for society
Why not use the money to dig a few wells in Africa instead? It adds a little more to the wellness of the world.
So, what is going on? Did Coinwallet.eu consider postponing the test? Was the test ever real? Please tell us KingAfurah
So what's the point of this now that you know it won't actually delay legit transactions?
If it is more then an additional few seconds then a new way to execute double spend transactions could have been discovered. An attacker could flood the network with transactions, then attempt to spend the same inputs twice, each originating from diverse nodes. The victim(s) would not even realize the double spend attack for a long time.
As of ~1357 GMT, around 1,400 unconfirmed transactions, total fees of ~.39 BTC and the last block was found ~4 minutes ago and 6 blocks were found in the last ~55 minutes.
What happened? There's only ~600 unconfirmed transactions.
I see 790 and it keeps rising.
I think the test started.
KingAfurah what's going on?
What happened? There's only ~600 unconfirmed transactions.
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