[bitcoin-dev] Testnet3 Reest

Johnson Lau jl2012 at xbt.hk
Thu Aug 30 20:44:25 UTC 2018


A public testnet is still useful so in articles people could make references to these transactions.

Maybe we could have 2 testnets at the same time, with one having a smaller block size?

> On 31 Aug 2018, at 4:02 AM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> Signed PGP part
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 12:58:42PM +0530, shiva sitamraju via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Testnet is now 1411795 blocks and a full sync is taking atleast 48 hours.
>> 
>> Is a testnet reset scheduled in the next release or any reason not to do a
>> reset ?
>> 
>> Fast onboarding/lower disk overheads would be  very much appreicated for
>> testing purposes
> 
> Actually I'd advocate the opposite: I'd want testnet to be a *larger*
> blockchain than mainnet to find size-related issues first.
> 
> Note that for testing regtest is often a better alternative, and you can setup
> private regtest blockchains fairly easily and with good control over exactly
> when and how blocks are created.
> 
> -- 
> https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
> 
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