Speaking of records, we can’t skip to mention Dash’s latest performance during a stress test, which basically surpass the Bitcoin Cash’s previous impressive presentation.
The company, which manages MyDashWallet, also known as Delta Engine made a stress test last week, which broke all developers’ expectation with the enormous result of 3 million transactions in a 24-hour time frame. Here’s the place to note that the last Dash test in July this year showed a result of 464k. This extended the record of Bitcoin Cash from September, which was about 2.1 million.
Read the results
The research was performed by the Arizona State University for the purpose of scaling a level with relative ease of use. The result basically means that Dash is able to handle the load with small interruption when compared to the Bitcoin network. Regarding the transaction fee, it seems to stay the same at 0.03 cents but the average one decreased to the same amount because of the large number of low-payed transactions. According the Delta Engine, considering the several downtimes, the network performed very well with the peak of approximately 31k in pending on the go for a usually empty backlog of unconfirmed transactions.
All the six running nodes managed to download around 500MB of additional information for the 24h stress test time. Of course, some of the Masternodes didn’t succeed because of some memory problems or not enough disk space. Want makes the Dash team proud is the fact that some of the users confirmed a 100% of CPU exploitation.
The 6 orphan blocks were marginally more than usual, considering the same criteria before from some time ago: 54 orphans in December 2017 or 286 in August 2016. This time, about 68 Masternodes went offline, which is only 1.4% of the entire network. Actually, Masternodes’ support is the reason for the Dash system to continue running as it should be. The nodes, which didn’t manage to keep up with the network were kicked out of the reward queue.
Conclusion
The idea behind stress tests is to basically show if the network is able to resist on many users interacting with it. The current Dash stress test demonstrated exactly the ability to handle the traffic of many potential users, willing to join the network. Without augmenting the block size, Dash registers about 4k merchants accepting it as a payment method and this is what makes it able to manage a process of wide adoption.