A team running a website called BCH Stress Test Day plans to have the BCH network process millions of minimum-fee transactions at once in a single day. This week, Spendbch. IO, with the help of open source project Bitbox, successfully developed a tool that allows anyone to participate in the testing.

Spendbch. IO launches stress testing app

At a maximum block size of 32 MB, the Bitcoin Cash blockchain is much larger than many other distributed ledgers available today. Block capacity is designed to be so large to support high transaction throughput. Until May this year, the maximum block size in the BCH chain was 8MB, and miners had been working with blocks ranging from 2-8 MB. Viabtc processed an 8 MB block and validated over 37, 000 transactions at once. The block size is now 32 MB and the community wants to test the network by sending a large number of transactions all at once over the BCH chain over 24 hours.

In preparation for BCH Stress Test Day (BCHSTD), the Spendbch. IO team released an open source Node.js application. The most basic tool was created using the BCH developer kit Bitbox. The Spendbch. IO team says the agreement is a “starting point” and will offer 1 BCH to future developers who create more advanced Web application tools for all devices.

“Bch-stress Test is a concept app, and developers who make the app available on all devices will receive a 1BCH reward.” The spendbch. IO developer explains.

Stress test agenda

Gabriel Cardona, creator of Bitbox.Earth, and many other BCH enthusiasts have been noticing and sharing graphs of transaction peaks on the BCH network. Data collected from Mempool and fork.lol show several large increases in the BCH transaction count.

According to the BCHSTD coordinator, testing is scheduled to begin at 12 noon UTC on September 1. At 10 a.m., the test team plans to prepare the script and load the BCH account.

Then at noon, the team will make sure the script launches, head to Memo.cash and start frantically sending out deals and tips. At 1 p.m., they plan to play some games. After that, everyone can sit back and watch how the network “handles all transactions,” BCHSTD explains.

The BCH-Stress Test tool can be found in the Github repository.