Ways to participate in the Bitcoin Cash stress test

The stress test on September 1 will be good exercise. You can participate with as little or as much Bitcoin as you want. The stresstestbitcoin.cash site provides a lot of context but does not have ways to participate yet.

Ways to participate:

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BCH Method 1: scale.cash

The site is nice and self-explanatory.

It runs locally in your browser but requires access to the site to get it. I think the site is using a CDN so it should be resistant to DDOS. It also requires access to rest.bitbox.earth and I am not sure how DDOS resistant it is.

If you want to be sure to have it during the stress test, you can download a copy of the page and run it directly from your PC (use something like “save entire page”) but it still depends on access to rest.bitbox.earth.

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BCH Method 2: txBlaster2 bot on memo.cash

This bot is even easier than the scale.cash page and is a great reason to make a memo.cash account if you haven’t yet.

The maker (I think) is Esthon who has been active on memo and with Bitcoin Cash for a long time. I do not know if he has an active reddit account but I do not see any red flags. Still, please do not send single large transactions to the bot.

It is handling simultaneous requests well so far.

This method depends both on the bot staying alive and on users having a way to tip the bot. I’m not sure how the memo.cash site will stand up to DDOS.

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BCH Method 3: run scale.cash with your own node

Thanks to /u/lechango for the link and explanation. This is about as DDOS resistant as it gets if you are able to set it up.

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BCH Method 4: ?

I don’t know any other methods at the moment. It would be nice to have one that is strongly resistant to DDOS and easy for the average user.

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BTC Method 1:

Some people are interested in running some level of stress test on BTC at the same time. I like this idea - it will help to get more of an apples-to-apples comparison of performance under high load between BCH and BTC. Anybody who knows what is up knows what will happen but the stress test audience can include people who are not yet convinced.

I know someone is working on this but I do not know the status.

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