Hello Everyone. Just wanted to add a few cents to the testnet conversation!
Who was part of the initial test?
jcpbs, rule144, bryank, bikerleszno, borz.
What did we do?
We started slow with a few transactions to and from different wallets. We quickly ramped up to spamming hundreds of transactions via console sendtoaddress command.
What's Next?
We have some basic housekeeping to perform and nail down some specifics to some of our upcoming tests but we will be expanding our pilot to all those who are interested.
We have just reached just over 100 members in our testnet. Our goal is to have 512 members utilizing the testnet. If you are interested, please stop by our slack and let us know you're interested! We will be looking to roll out to a larger group very soon!
Note: There are no requirements for you to take part in the testnet. You do not need to own a node or even have any amount of XBY. It will not cost you anything to participate! There is some very basic setup, which we will assist with and then its just sending transactions, performing attacks on the network (if you know how), etc. Periodically we may coordinate an effort together to spam the network full of transactions but that's about it. Basically use it as if you were using it for real Smiley
If anyone has any questions, please feel free to PM me or ask the questions in the slack. We will be more than happy to answer any questions!
Thanks for your Time!
BryanK
*THIS SHOULD GET PEOPLE EXCITED!!!!!!!!!*The following block is number 197 straight off the testnet. Oh, what does 1097 mean?!? That is the number of transactions within the block!
197 4073fe5a0572fd04
2(XtraBabY) 2017-Aug-22 23:09:42 1097 · 519923744736.00
http://testnet.xtrabytes.global/?4073fe5a0572fd0430d588480f315a6976aa722e4e680e927faec0612aa5016dThis is only the beginning and full stress testing has not even started.

Hack Testnet challenge, my 5,000xby to the first person to find a confirmed vulnerability that is not previously known to the dev team. In other words, a zero-day.
Ah yes. Thank you Secure -- I meant to mention this in my post as well. The size of these blocks easily compare against a BTC block. Our testnet is handling these with no problem!