This repo has been deprecated in favor of the web version available at https://github.com/SpendBCH/bch-stresstest-web and https://www.scale.cash

Find more information or donation addresses for the stresstest on Sept 1, 2018 at https://stresstestbitcoin.cash/

node.js app for stress testing the BCH network

Use at your own risk. This is currently not polished and has limited safety features.

• Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/SpendBCH/bch-stresstest.git
cd bch-stresstest

• Install bitbox-cli

npm install

• Start the app

node stresstest.js

• Write down your mnemonic and WIF
• Send BCH to the receiving address displayed

• Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/SpendBCH/bch-stresstest.git
cd bch-stresstest

• Configure your node's RPC connection in stresstest.js
• Set useRest to false in stresstest.js
• (Optional) Increase or decrease the amount of tx to send concurrently with numParallelTx in stresstest.js
• Set bitbox-cli version in package.json to 0.7.21
• Install bitbox-cli

npm install

• Start the app

node stresstest.js

• Write down your mnemonic and WIF
• Send BCH to the receiving address displayed

1. The mining fee for split tx calculation is off and can fail when testing 10k+ tx. Save your mnemonic to recover these funds.
2. Sending more than 0.1 BCH may hit the max tx size limit. Your funds should be safe if you kept the WIF and mnemonic to recover.