Electric-Coin-Company / zcash-scale-calc

Zcash scale calculations

zcash-scale-calc

Contents

• Punchline
• Installation
• Usage
• Development

Punchline

$ zcash-scale-calc --pour-rate 100 --lifetime 500
=== zcash-scale-calc ===

Commits per pour: 2 [COMMIT / POUR]
Max pour rate: 100.0 [POUR / SEC]
Network lifetime: 500 [YEAR]

Total commits over network lifetime: 3153600000000.0 [COMMIT]
log_2 of total commits: 41.52013682014238455718778943
Minimal Merkle Tree height: 42


$ zcash-scale-calc --pour-rate 5000 --lifetime 200
=== zcash-scale-calc ===

Commits per pour: 2 [COMMIT / POUR]
Max pour rate: 5000.0 [POUR / SEC]
Network lifetime: 200 [YEAR]

Total commits over network lifetime: 63072000000000.0 [COMMIT]
log_2 of total commits: 45.84206491502974690505810887
Minimal Merkle Tree height: 46

Installation

$ git clone 'https://github.com/Electric-Coin-Company/zcash-scale-calc'
$ pip install ./zcash-scale-calc

Usage

$ zcash-scale-calc --help
usage: zcash-scale-calc [-h] [--pour-rate MAX_POUR_PER_SEC]
                        [--commits-per-pour COMMIT_PER_POUR]
                        [--lifetime LIFETIME_YEAR]

zcash scale calculations.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --pour-rate MAX_POUR_PER_SEC
                        Network Pour throughput rate in pours/sec. Default:
                        5000 [POUR / SEC]
  --commits-per-pour COMMIT_PER_POUR
                        Commits tracked per pour. Default: 2 [COMMIT / POUR]
  --lifetime LIFETIME_YEAR
                        Maximum network lifetime in years. Default: 200 [YEAR]

Development

• source code: https://github.com/Electric-Coin-Company/zcash-scale-calc
• issues: https://github.com/Electric-Coin-Company/zerocashd