Stress testing the chain
I've been looking at various metrics of Algorand blockchain, comparing it with other L1, and I got an idea on how to stress-test and also bring a bit of visibility to us.
According to Chainspect, Algorand's avg tps over the past 30 days was around 16tps. Max tps was around 5716 registered in block window #38,922,601 – #38,922,700. What I was thinking is run some massive amounts of transactions in bulk, to see how the chain will react. I'm sure nothing bad will happen to it but I'd be curious to see if this could potentially spark some conversations outside of our community.
Given the fee of 0.001-0.002 algo for a simple "payment" tx, running a bulk of 1k tx is 2 algo, which is under $.5 at current price. I'd be totally fine spending $10-20 to experiment.
Let me know what you all think. Am I wasting time for no reason?
ps if we could crowdsource the effort we could potentially cross this 5k TPS and do a real stress test.