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Topic: this stress test is really messing with my day (Read 1331 times)

legendary
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I have seen an transaction that didnt had any fee. it was 0.00 bitcoin, and never get confirmed.
newbie
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It is time to decide, which one is most precious time or BTC ? Grin
If BTC, then don't worry about time. lower your transaction fees.
If Time, then don't worry about BTC. increase your transaction fees.
legendary
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Peoples says that bitcoin network pass this stres test, but I think this test is successful.
Network is messed more than 10 days, many uncon. transaction...
That's because the last few test aren't conducted on a large scale. Since the unconfirmed transactions is constantly above 30k, the attackers would have spent quite some money to push it up and maintain at such a high amount for days. That being said, a little higher fee would immediately solve the problem and doubling of block size would require double the money to conduct an attack that is like this.
legendary
Activity: 1223
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Peoples says that bitcoin network pass this stres test, but I think this test is successful.
Network is messed more than 10 days, many uncon. transaction...
sr. member
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my 2 transactions yesterday took 8 hours to get a tx id Smiley

Who sent the transactions? A web service? Or a wallet? If there's no txid, it means the party responsible for sending the transaction is backlogged, not the Bitcoin network.
hero member
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my 2 transactions yesterday took 8 hours to get a tx id Smiley
sr. member
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so i have sent 2 payments both of which havent even gotten TAX ids, who is slowing down the network and why? Huh Cry

A transaction doesn't need to go through to get a txid, as it's just a cryptographic hash.
legendary
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I'm having trouble syncing my wallet today. Has happened maybe a handful of times over the years. Doesn't seem to want to go past 37 hours remaining atm. I'm not overly panicking. Is this a result of the stress test?
legendary
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Now this stress test is getting me angry, people are getting in trouble that the transactions are not getting confirmed.
how so? with loan repayments ?
Not really, any rational borrower would acknowledge that the confirmation would take slightly more time. However, in exchanges, deposits requires 3+ confirmations to appear in account. The transaction must first gain a confirmation which can be difficult under 0.0002BTC/kb of fee.
hero member
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Now this stress test is getting me angry, people are getting in trouble that the transactions are not getting confirmed.
how so? with loan repayments ?
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1002
Now this stress test is getting me angry, people are getting in trouble that the transactions are not getting confirmed.
legendary
Activity: 3038
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Is the test net no longer good enough for stuff like that?
Testnet doesn't really provide an accurate real life example as there isn't much hashrate and transactions. Many miners have modified their rules to try to include more non spam transactions. This is a larger scale one as the unconfirmed transaction has constantly been at 40K+ at most of the time. Last stress test I saw, the spam didn't last for days and wasn't above 20k+. Unfortunately, the only way to get fast confirmation is to add higher fees as of now.
hero member
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Why do you ask when you already have the answer in the topic? It's a stresstest, done by those that want to show that we need bigger max block limits on bitcoin blockchain.

do we have any idea who these people are, are they whale or miners?

read more infos here about the stress test. the test should have done by now, im not sure on who/what still conducting this transaction spam in the network

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/next-level-bitcoin-stress-test-june-29-30-1300-gmt-2015-1098263
legendary
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1* there are some stress tests and and ongoing network attacks

2* chinese pools not confirming transactions



and yes, I'm also quite pissed by all this and still hope, that developers will somehow react, because last events just ruining bitcoin..
legendary
Activity: 3248
Merit: 1070
Why do you ask when you already have the answer in the topic? It's a stresstest, done by those that want to show that we need bigger max block limits on bitcoin blockchain.

do we have any idea who these people are, are they whale or miners?

I think they are actually researchers. Each transaction really only has a small amount of BTC, and then they ship it back to the originating wallet (or something very similar). Nobody is "spending" or "exchange" Bitcoin, it's essentially a "Wallet to Wallet" test.

there are some spammers, attackers among them for sure, because the test should've ended for now, we get it, bitcoin can't handle the current amount of transaction

but someone is still perpetuating it, this mean that he is not doing it for testing, but he want to convince people to change to xt or whatever other reason
legendary
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Is the test net no longer good enough for stuff like that?
alh
legendary
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Why do you ask when you already have the answer in the topic? It's a stresstest, done by those that want to show that we need bigger max block limits on bitcoin blockchain.

do we have any idea who these people are, are they whale or miners?

I think they are actually researchers. Each transaction really only has a small amount of BTC, and then they ship it back to the originating wallet (or something very similar). Nobody is "spending" or "exchange" Bitcoin, it's essentially a "Wallet to Wallet" test.
hero member
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2local[IEO] - https://2local.io/
Why do you ask when you already have the answer in the topic? It's a stresstest, done by those that want to show that we need bigger max block limits on bitcoin blockchain.

do we have any idea who these people are, are they whale or miners?
legendary
Activity: 1638
Merit: 1005
so i have sent 2 payments both of which havent even gotten TAX ids, who is slowing down the network and why? Huh Cry

Give more fees to your transaction next time
hero member
Activity: 584
Merit: 500
Why do you ask when you already have the answer in the topic? It's a stresstest, done by those that want to show that we need bigger max block limits on bitcoin blockchain.
hero member
Activity: 826
Merit: 501
2local[IEO] - https://2local.io/
so i have sent 2 payments both of which havent even gotten TAX ids, who is slowing down the network and why? Huh Cry
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