{"id":16897,"date":"2015-09-03T19:46:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T02:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/bitcoin-network-stress-test-could-occur-next-week"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:28:07","slug":"bitcoin-network-stress-test-could-occur-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/bitcoin-network-stress-test-could-occur-next-week","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Network Stress Test Could Occur Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/media.coindesk.com\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_191724428.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The controversial group behind several bitcoin \u2018stress tests\u2019 has confirmed it will push ahead with its biggest experiment to date.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to CoinDesk, CoinWallet COO James Wilson said the test \u2013 which could reportedly cause a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/coinwallet-plans-bitcoin-dust-attack-september-create-30-day-transaction-backlog-1515981\" target=\"_blank\">30-day backlog<\/a> of transactions \u2013 would be executed at 10am Thursday (GMT) next week.<\/p>\n<p>The mysterious group, which sees its work as a drastic but necessary demonstration of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/bitcoin-software-forked-in-bid-to-resolve-scalability-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bitcoin XT<\/a>\u2019s need, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Bitcoin\/comments\/3hgke4\/coinwallet_says_bitcoin_stress_test_in_september\/\" target=\"_blank\">criticised<\/a> by some users for \u201cbullying\u201d a live network worth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/data\/bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\">several billion dollars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/bitcoin-network-stress-test-could-occur-next-week\/?utm_content=buffer85aa3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversial group behind several bitcoin \u2018stress tests\u2019 has confirmed it will push ahead with its biggest experiment to date. Speaking to CoinDesk, CoinWallet COO James Wilson said the test \u2013 which could reportedly cause a 30-day backlog of transactions \u2013 would be executed at 10am Thursday (GMT) next week. The mysterious group, which sees [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46004,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16897\/revisions\/46004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}