Bitcoin Network Survives Surprise Stress Test

By June 23, 2015Bitcoin Business

A planned ‘ultimate stress test’ for the bitcoin network has passed without major incident, though the company organizing the event said it was only able to send 15% of the transaction volume it had intended.

Bitcoin brokerage CoinWallet.eu had planned the stress test starting 22 June at 13:00 GMT, to last for 100 blocks. It had sought to spend 20 BTC (around $5,000) on transactions totaling about 200MB in data.

The original intention was to flood […]

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