Warm-up04:32 β 04:32 UTC Β· 12 s
0
accepted
- Avg
- β
- Peak sec
- β
- Fees
- 0.0003 BSV
- Bots
- 1
- Fan-outs
- 1
- Median
- β
Fan-out only: checked the split lands before any shots.
Labelled with bot namesFirst fan-out 4993dcc694β¦e3d6c7 β
BSV stress test Β· Halloween Β· 31 October 2026
The night the bots stormed the node
9,183,007
transactions fired at the Bitcoin SV network by 20 TERRORNODE bots in one day, every one a real, signed, fee-paying transaction.
β Accepted 9,183,007Rejected 0Orphaned 0π₯ Peak 2,604 tx/s
2,604tx/s
Fastest second
Run 3. The busiest full minute averaged 1,599 tx/s.
4,340,103
Biggest run
Run 6: 1 h 25 min non-stop, 851 tx/s on average.
3.4537BSV
All network fees
About $59 at $17.19/BSV: 37.6 sats a transaction, fan-outs included.
1.0s
Typical accept time
Median from send to accepted in the big runs; 95% inside about 2.5 s. Run 7: 0.33 s.
3.26GB
Of transactions
Bytes sent to the network: shots of about 300 to 390 bytes each.
990
Fan-outs
Each one split a coin into 10,000 to 15,430 lanes for the bots to fire down.
91,990
Spot-checked
Shots whose status we asked for after sending. 89,243 were already seen by the network; 0 rejected, 0 orphaned.
14h
On the clock
First shot 04:33 UTC, last 18:25 UTC. The heavy runs went from 12:47 to 18:25.
Minute by minute
The storm, 12:00 to 18:30 UTC
Accepted transactions a second, averaged over each minute, from the bots' own logs. The gaps are the pauses between runs, while we fixed whatever the last run had found.
Run 1 Β· 17,250Run 3 Β· 3,250,638Run 4 Β· 527,651Run 5 Β· 449,896Run 6 Β· 4,340,103Run 7 Β· 587,469
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Run by run
Nine runs, one long night
Each run ended on purpose: a safety stop, a budget, or a finish. When broadcast errors passed 5% of the last 5,000 sends, the runner stopped itself. Those errors were timeouts it retried, not rejections. There is no gap in the numbering: run 2 was stopped before it fired a shot.
Early test04:33 β 04:35 UTC Β· 98 s
10,000
accepted
- Avg
- 102 tx/s
- Peak sec
- 968 tx/s
- Fees
- 0.003 BSV
- Bots
- 1
- Fan-outs
- 1
- Median
- 78 s
Finished: all 10,000 shots accepted.
Labelled with bot namesFirst fan-out 042d2feccdβ¦7ad108 β
Run 112:09 β 12:10 UTC Β· 74 s
17,250
accepted
- Avg
- 233 tx/s
- Peak sec
- 975 tx/s
- Fees
- 0.0154 BSV
- Bots
- 20
- Fan-outs
- 20
- Median
- 1.44 s
Safety stop: broadcast errors passed 5% of the last 5,000 sends.
Labelled with bot namesFirst fan-out 2a810f928aβ¦e2b324 β
Run 212:11 β 12:14 UTC Β· 3 min
0
accepted
- Avg
- β
- Peak sec
- β
- Fees
- 0.0105 BSV
- Bots
- 20
- Fan-outs
- 20
- Median
- β
Stopped by hand before any shots: 20 fan-outs sent at once timed out at the broadcaster. Fixed in #208 (fan-out cap and stagger).
Labelled with bot namesFirst fan-out 2fd33b30e0β¦c14cdd β
Run 312:47 β 13:52 UTC Β· 1 h 5 min
3,250,638
accepted
- Avg
- 832 tx/s
- Peak sec
- 2,604 tx/s
- Fees
- 1.0061 BSV
- Bots
- 20
- Fan-outs
- 220
- Median
- 1.02 s
Safety stop: broadcast errors passed 5% of the last 5,000 sends.
Labelled with bot namesFirst fan-out f1e439961cβ¦affbad β
Run 413:53 β 14:02 UTC Β· 9 min
527,651
accepted
- Avg
- 956 tx/s
- Peak sec
- 1,967 tx/s
- Fees
- 0.1873 BSV
- Bots
- 20
- Fan-outs
- 48
- Median
- 0.88 s
Safety stop: broadcast errors passed 5% of the last 5,000 sends.
π Halloween flagsFirst fan-out 0efe84a516β¦ff3c25 β
Run 514:02 β 14:17 UTC Β· 15 min
449,896
accepted
- Avg
- 508 tx/s
- Peak sec
- 2,030 tx/s
- Fees
- 0.186 BSV
- Bots
- 20
- Fan-outs
- 55
- Median
- 0.82 s
Safety stop: broadcast errors passed 5% of the last 5,000 sends.
π Halloween flagsFirst fan-out c371602489β¦ce519a β
Run 614:18 β 15:43 UTC Β· 1 h 25 min
4,340,103
accepted
- Avg
- 851 tx/s
- Peak sec
- 2,057 tx/s
- Fees
- 1.7504 BSV
- Bots
- 20
- Fan-outs
- 413
- Median
- 1.00 s
The biggest run. It wrote no summary; these figures are its last log line.
π Halloween flagsFirst fan-out 4f8e10bf3fβ¦4dcd58 β
Run 716:14 β 18:25 UTC Β· 2 h 11 min
587,469
accepted
- Avg
- 75 tx/s
- Peak sec
- 1,307 tx/s
- Fees
- 0.2946 BSV
- Bots
- 20
- Fan-outs
- 212
- Median
- 0.33 s
Finished at its 1 BSV budget (the fees set aside for the shots it had planned). Not one broadcast error.
π Halloween flagsFirst fan-out bc9561ce24β¦3bdcd5 β
What one shot looks like
Anatomy of a bullet
Every shot is a tiny transaction: one input, two outputs, about 260 to 390 bytes. It spends the shot before it in its lane, pays a fee of about 27 to 36 sats, passes the rest on, and shouts a message in an OP_RETURN.
The OP_RETURN, push by push
1
tokenblaster.lolWho fired it: the site tag every TokenBlaster shot carries.2
(ammo)A short binary field: the kind of round fired.3
148489The shot's number in that bot's run.4
terrornodeThe game.5
ππ»π PLAY TERRORNODE Β· tokenblaster.lol/arcade/terrornode ππ»πThe flag. From run 4 on, each bot rotated through 16 flags, one per shot.Outputs: the OP_RETURN (0 sats) and the lane's change, which the next shot spends.
terrornode-bot03shot #148,489 Β· 13:56 UTC Β· 260 bytes
terrornode-bot03
terrornode-bot07shot #85,527 Β· 14:58 UTC Β· 367 bytes
ππΉπΊπβ οΈπ₯ππ» PLAY TERRORNODE Β· tokenblaster.lol/arcade/terrornode πΉπ§π·οΈπ¦πππ»π
terrornode-bot14shot #210,185 Β· 16:23 UTC Β· 340 bytes
ππ»πππ¦π·οΈπ§πΉ bWalletX Β· bwalletx.com πΉπ§π·οΈπ¦πππ»π
How it ran
The machine
Fan out
Each bot splits one coin into a fan-out of 10,000 to 15,430 small outputs, its lanes. Only a few fan-outs go out at a time and the bots start a few seconds apart, so the broadcaster isn't swamped with half-megabyte transactions.
Chain the shots
Once a fan-out is seen by the network, the bot fires down every lane: each shot spends the last one, so one lane is a chain of shots. Signing runs on one Mac mini, about 850 a second in the big runs.
Broadcast
Shots go out in batches to GorillaPool's Arcade broadcaster, at 100 sats per kB. About 1 in 100 shots is checked again afterwards, to catch rejections and orphans.
Stay safe
Spending caps per bot and per run, a kill switch, an automatic stop at 5% broadcast errors, and a journal of spent coins on disk, so a coin is never spent twice, even after a restart.
On chain
The blocks that carried it
Blocks 973,462 to 973,488 were mined while our runs were landing. The whole network was stress testing that day, so these counts include every team's traffic, not just ours. Two blocks topped 3 million transactions: 973,465 (3,184,172, mined during run 3) and 973,479 (4,014,228).
| Block | Mined (UTC) | Miner | Transactions | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 973,462 | 12:40 | TAAL | 136,071 | 59 MB | |
| 973,463 | 12:50 | Kryptex | 27 | 10 kB | |
| 973,464 | 12:55 | GorillaPool | 279,038 | 99 MB | |
| 973,465 | 13:56 | SA100 | 3,184,172 | 911 MB | |
| 973,466 | 14:01 | CUVVE | 257,465 | 70 MB | |
| 973,467 | 14:02 | TAAL | 13,721 | 3 MB | |
| 973,468 | 14:05 | SA100 | 112,751 | 36 MB | |
| 973,469 | 14:46 | GorillaPool | 1,440,309 | 500 MB | |
| 973,470 | 14:48 | CUVVE | 372,078 | 131 MB | |
| 973,471 | 14:58 | qdlnk | 628,866 | 228 MB | |
| 973,472 | 15:09 | CUVVE | 930,983 | 316 MB | |
| 973,473 | 15:46 | CUVVE | 2,319,048 | 826 MB | |
| 973,474 | 15:49 | KardanPool | 101,332 | 28 MB | |
| 973,475 | 16:00 | CUVVE | 557,146 | 282 MB | |
| 973,476 | 16:17 | KardanPool | 898,384 | 202 MB | |
| 973,477 | 16:23 | qdlnk | 356,035 | 121 MB | |
| 973,478 | 16:49 | Kryptex | 84 | 25 kB | |
| 973,479 | 17:11 | CUVVE | 4,014,228 | 898 MB | |
| 973,480 | 17:30 | Kryptex | 9,569 | 2 MB | |
| 973,481 | 17:31 | SA100 | 916,160 | 194 MB | |
| 973,482 | 17:31 | qdlnk | 24,182 | 5 MB | |
| 973,483 | 18:04 | Kryptex | 318 | 84 kB | |
| 973,484 | 18:16 | GorillaPool | 1,052,750 | 251 MB | |
| 973,485 | 18:44 | Mining-Dutch | 1 | 0 kB | |
| 973,486 | 18:51 | Kryptex | 51 | 18 kB | |
| 973,487 | 18:56 | Kryptex | 5 | 3 kB | |
| 973,488 | 19:07 | TAAL | 371,164 | 129 MB |
Morning after
Sweeping up the bones
When the runs stopped, thousands of lanes still held a few sats each. On 1 November, 1,800 sweep transactions (320 + 1,480) gathered them up. The leftover, 0.69793933 BSV, went home in a single transaction with 1,801 inputs.
Don't trust, verify
Check it yourself
Every fan-out
All 990 fan-out transactions, with run and bot, as a text file. Each fan-out's outputs lead to the lanes of shots that spent them.
Watch the chain
bsv.lol shows BSV transactions live and files every shot under its game, "terrornode". For one transaction or block, its links go to BananaBlocks, and so do the links on this page.
The small print
- "Accepted" means the broadcaster accepted the transaction, as counted in each run's log. Run 6 wrote no summary, so its figures come from its last log line.
- The 9,183,007 doesn't include the transactions that funded the bots, the fan-outs themselves, the sweep, or anyone's own paid TERRORNODE games that day.
- Fees (3.4537 BSV) cover every shot and every fan-out, including the warm-up and run 2. The dollar figure uses $17.19 per BSV, the price the runner used that day.
- The fastest second (2,604 tx/s) is the best one-second count in the runs' logs. The chart shows minute averages, which are lower.
- Run 4 onwards carried the Halloween flags. The early test and runs 1 to 3 were labelled with plain bot names.