Re: [bitcoin-dev] Testnet3 Reest

2018-09-05 Thread Karl-Johan Alm via bitcoin-dev
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 9:43 PM Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev wrote: > We looked at doing this previously in Bitcoin core and jtimon had some > patches, but the existing approach increased the size of the > blockindex objects in memory while not in signed testnet mode. This > could probably

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Testnet3 Reest

2018-09-03 Thread Ryan Havar via bitcoin-dev
I think I mentioned it before, but seems semi-relevant to this thread so I'd like to throw my vote behind pretty tiny blocks on testnet (like max 50-100k weight) to try help simulate a fee-market like situation. (Although lately there's been a lot of testnet spam and full blocks, which has real

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Testnet3 Reest

2018-08-31 Thread Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:21 PM Johnson Lau via bitcoin-dev wrote: > 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? I would much rather have a signe

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Testnet3 Reest

2018-08-30 Thread Johnson Lau via bitcoin-dev
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 > wrote: > > Signed PGP part > On Thu, Aug 30, 2

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Testnet3 Reest

2018-08-30 Thread Jimmy Song via bitcoin-dev
Stupid question time: Why don't we have multiple testnets? On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 3:31 PM Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 12:58:42PM +0530, shiva sitamraju via bitcoin-dev > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Testnet is now 1411795 blocks

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Testnet3 Reest

2018-08-30 Thread Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
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 w

[bitcoin-dev] Testnet3 Reest

2018-08-30 Thread shiva sitamraju via bitcoin-dev
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 Regards -- Shiva S CEO @ Blockonomics