Hello @hashdag, and @michaelsuttonil
I hope you’ve been entertained by watching the Kaspa protocol undergo a legitimate mainnet stress test.
If you’re open to it, I’d love for you to address a couple of challenging questions that arose from the test. My only goal here is to help improve understanding of Kaspa.
From what we observed (estimation), the Rothschild bots are able to push between 75M–100M transactions in a single day.
1) While the bots generated a massive number of transactions, many appeared to be duplicates, which effectively cut throughput by ~2–3x. Do you know why this duplication happens, and are there potential solutions we should consider for future tests?
2) It also seems that certain nodes became overwhelmed when a large number of bots directed traffic through a single one. For example, the public Tangem node may have been temporarily overloaded by this behavior, oops our fault 🥴(unconfirmed). Could you confirm whether there are strategies to mitigate bottlenecks in subsequent experiments?
(Bot settings below, each participant used slightly different config. But mainly the same)