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Re:Ending Bitcoin Support by sethgecko on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @04:39AM (#16221494)
Someone did a stress test the other day. Nowhere near 7ktx/s and a lot of nodes started to crash. https://medium.com/@bnp117/stress-testing-the-raiblocks-netw...

Honestly it is scary to see how easy is to launch a DoS attack just by precomputing the PoW.

Edit: Here are some people saying their nodes went out of sync https://www.reddit.com/r/RaiBlocks/comments/7rzlid/minor_str...

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Re:Ending Bitcoin Support by lhl on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @06:56AM (#16222026)
Radix is publishing some eye popping numbers on their DAG-based testnet: https://twitter.com/radixdlt/status/956087291696566272

We'll have to see how it functions in the real world later this year...

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