Bitcoin Cash Stress Test Goes Beyond 24-Hours Setting New Records

The BCH Stress Test Went Well Over 24-Hours
The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) blockchain and network participants have celebrated a milestone this September as the peak of the BCH Stress Test Day saw 2.2M transactions processed on the first of the month. Moreover, BCH miners like Coingeek, Waterhole, BMG Pool, Viabtc and others processed many large blocks on September 1st between 4-15MB in size. Alongside this, transactions (tx) processed on the network reached about 23 tx/second for most of the day. However, even though the day was scheduled for only 24-hours, BCH stress test participants continued to send millions of transactions.


The 23MB Block
In addition to the lower than usual fees on September 4, block 546423 processed by BMG pool was a whopping 23.15 MB Bitcoin Cash Block that processed a record 97,318 transactions in one fell swoop. Now, this was a unique block indeed and many observers took notice of how this block propagated. The developer Jochen Hoenicke, otherwise known as ‘Johoe,’ detailed that there seemed to be a limit that he had noticed.
There’s still a lot of fine tuning that can be done, and these stress tests are giving BCH developers the chance to witness and record data concerning what happens when the network is pushed to certain limits. For a few days, the experimentation took people minds off of the fork debate and this kind of testing gave a glimpse of what the network can do on-chain. Overall BCH proponents enjoyed the stress test and remain confident that Bitcoin Cash can scale. What do you think about the stress test results? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comment section below.The typical variation we see in different machines in single-threaded performance is not that large, maybe 3x, and sometimes the most expensive CPUs are 16-core monstrosities that only get 2.4 GHz per core, which will perform a lot worse than a 2-core 3.8 GHz Core i3.
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