CoinWallet Plans To ‘Stress Test’ Bitcoin To Make The Case For a Larger Block Size

CoinWallet, a London, U.K.-based bitcoin wallet, says it will conduct a stress test of the bitcoin network in early September that will render most bitcoin wallet software worthless and create a “nearly 30-day backlog,” according to the International Business Times. They plan to accomplish this by flooding bitcoin wallets with small amounts of bitcoin. CoinWallet’s purpose is to convince developers and miners to implement a hard fork. The upcoming stress test is not CoinWallet’s first such attempt to make the case for increasing the block size. “As part of this test, I will be reconsolidating more than 150 Bitcoin that […]

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