Unleashing the Flood: Stress-Testing the Monero Network
summary
On 2022-08-12 a low-cost stress test floods Monero so that dynamic block sizing activates for the first time, with a peak of ~61k transactions and about ~50,000 transactions in 24 hours done for <$500 budget and under $1,000 fees. Average confirmation time jumps from ~2 minutes to ~30 minutes (~15 blocks), several low-RAM nodes crash, CakeWallet users report multihour delays, and the experiment exposes weaknesses in fee estimation, mempool management and miner selection rules.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:01Monero stress testing theory
- 7:10Planning 2022 stress test
- 13:11Spam attack vector
- 17:24Network disruption results
- 21:01Q&A
- 25:13Unlimited budget attacks impact
- 28:04Node crashes response
- 29:29State size effects
- 30:11Community resilience
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