Back in February last year I started trying to save testnet from the block storms, modifying my CPU miner to set a timestamp 2 hours into the future on the penultimate block within each difficulty period. Thus the network would be safe from accidental block storms for 2 hours and deliberate block storms for 20 minutes. The hope would be that this would be long enough for an ASIC miner to find a block and thus keep the network safe for the following difficulty period.
I also argued for a soft fork to fix the block storm issue (Lopp had claimed that fixing it required a hard fork).
I didn't run the miner the whole time, so I missed the difficulty adjustment quite a few times, but I do believe I prevented a block storm or two.
Then back in March/April when I was looking to see if it was time to start the miner again, I saw the testnet blocks and mempool were full of crap transactions, so I gave up on the project of trying to save testnet.
I think that Testnet should probably be reset every halving. At the very least to make sure everyone building on testnet has a chance to see if their time-keeping code is leap-year proof 👀 @k00b lol
Back in February last year I started trying to save testnet from the block storms, modifying my CPU miner to set a timestamp 2 hours into the future on the penultimate block within each difficulty period. Thus the network would be safe from accidental block storms for 2 hours and deliberate block storms for 20 minutes. The hope would be that this would be long enough for an ASIC miner to find a block and thus keep the network safe for the following difficulty period.
I also argued for a soft fork to fix the block storm issue (Lopp had claimed that fixing it required a hard fork).
I didn't run the miner the whole time, so I missed the difficulty adjustment quite a few times, but I do believe I prevented a block storm or two.
Then back in March/April when I was looking to see if it was time to start the miner again, I saw the testnet blocks and mempool were full of crap transactions, so I gave up on the project of trying to save testnet.
I think that Testnet should probably be reset every halving. At the very least to make sure everyone building on testnet has a chance to see if their time-keeping code is leap-year proof 👀 @k00b lol
how dare you lol
Shots fired
The fact that testnet coins are accruing value is insane to me.
Why not just have inflation on test net? Then it would never become scarce
I think testnet is meant to be as close to the real deal as possible, which is good reason for a reset
I think we should resef the test net every 4 to 5 years so that no complications arises.
I also say it because we can reset it, then why not do it regularly? Why wait till it starts getting some real value.
What a wild story! Scammers gonna scam