diff --git a/contrib/getTransactionsPerformance.js b/contrib/getTransactionsPerformance.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2f969aa8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/getTransactionsPerformance.js
@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+'use strict';
+
+var WalletService = require('../lib/services/wallet-api');
+var levelup = require('levelup');
+var leveldown = require('leveldown');
+var async = require('async');
+var bitcore = require('bitcore-lib');
+var fs = require('fs');
+var Writable = require('stream').Writable;
+var express = require('express');
+var request = require('request');
+
+var transactionCount = 1000000; // should be multiple of 1000
+
+var app = express();
+var server;
+
+var db = {
+  _store: levelup('./testData', { db: leveldown, keyEncoding: 'binary', valueEncoding: 'binary'})
+};
+
+db.getPrefix = function(name, callback) {
+  setImmediate(function() {
+    callback(null, new Buffer('0000', 'hex'));
+  });
+};
+
+db.pauseSync = function(callback) {
+  setImmediate(callback);
+};
+
+db.resumeSync = function() {
+
+};
+
+db.batch = function(ops, options, callback) {
+  var cb = callback;
+  var opts = options;
+  if (typeof callback !== 'function') {
+    cb = options;
+    opts = {};
+  }
+  if (!this._stopping) {
+    this._store.batch(ops, opts, cb);
+  } else {
+    setImmediate(cb);
+  }
+};
+
+db.createReadStream = function(op) {
+  var stream;
+  if (!this._stopping) {
+    stream = this._store.createReadStream(op);
+  }
+  return stream;
+};
+
+db.createKeyStream = function(op) {
+  var stream;
+  if (!this._stopping) {
+    stream = this._store.createKeyStream(op);
+  }
+  return stream;
+};
+
+var transaction = {};
+transaction.getTransaction = function(txid, options, callback) {
+var rawTx = '010000000196dbae7b9f523e599ff1197be34863d9986fd491767f6846193420ce5fcdaa20000000006b483045022100bc2f5f5e3736483bb939078eecfcbaf2b27aee5a6874819b1ee62e405e67ecc702201ed476ba29f4bd8fab9367f19a2155159d6450f2f9fde539127539945bb62aad012102849c38d98963a1ed4a32134a80b3410fb689556799d433363356ba6a244d92b9ffffffff02405a6659000000001976a91411a325ec6583557b535b23dde25c7891879b6ffb88ac80b40395000000001976a91448ce935003e6139ca6ec83f2cf36d2cdf0410a4b88ac00000000';
+var tx = new bitcore.Transaction(rawTx);
+  setImmediate(function() {
+    callback(null, tx);
+  });
+};
+
+var node = {
+  services: {
+    db: db,
+    transaction: transaction
+  }
+};
+
+var options = {
+  node: node
+};
+
+var service = new WalletService(options);
+
+function startService(callback) {
+  console.log('Starting service...');
+  service.start(callback);
+}
+
+function writeValues(callback) {
+  console.log('Writing values...');
+
+  var txidBuffer = Buffer.alloc(32);
+
+  async.timesSeries(transactionCount / 1000, function(i, next) {
+    var ops = [];
+
+    for(var j = 0; j < 1000; j++) {
+      var num = (i * 1000) + j + 1;
+      txidBuffer.writeUInt32LE(num);
+      ops.push(
+        {
+          type: 'put',
+          key: service._encoding.encodeWalletTransactionKey('wallet0', num, txidBuffer.toString('hex'))
+        }
+      );
+    }
+
+    service.db.batch(ops, next);
+  }, callback);
+}
+
+function setupExpress(callback) {
+  app.get('/wallets/:walletId/transactions', function(req, res) {
+    var fn = service._endpointGetTransactions();
+    fn(req, res);
+  });
+
+  server = app.listen(3123, function () {
+    console.log('Listening on port 3123');
+    callback();
+  });
+}
+
+function getTransactions(callback) {
+  var stream = request('http://localhost:3123/wallets/wallet0/transactions');
+  var writeStream = new Writable();
+  var count = 0;
+  writeStream._write = function(chunk, enc, callback) {
+    if(count % (transactionCount / 100) === 0) {
+      process.stdout.write('.');
+    }
+    count++;
+    // swallow output
+    setImmediate(callback);
+  };
+  stream.pipe(writeStream);
+  stream.on('end', callback);
+}
+
+async.series(
+  [
+    startService,
+    writeValues,
+    setupExpress,
+    getTransactions
+  ], function(err) {
+    if(err) {
+      console.log(err);
+    }
+
+    console.log('done');
+    server.close();
+  }
+);
+
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 1276cab24..69e7d946c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
     "jshint-stylish": "^2.1.0",
     "mocha": "^2.4.5",
     "proxyquire": "^1.3.1",
+    "request": "^2.81.0",
     "rimraf": "^2.4.2",
     "sinon": "^1.15.4"
   },