Stupid behavior. Just wastes devs time, pushing them to spin up alternative test infrastructure. nostr:note1c4r3kz3fyfk5sx9tgrq8tz6udq2xw0el2lpekwe4cvd00jtf062qs5latk

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I've been trying to understand what he's doing and what hes trying to prove for 2 weeks

i say, let everyone try out stupid ideas on testnet, that's what it's for

though i don't quite get his mentality either, since some time back... what was the thing that made me wonder? he's from casahodl right?

yes, he is shitcoining😂

Testnet is one of the oldest shitcoins in existence!

I'm really interested to see how you did it 😂 personally I'm not educated on testnet semantics and the proposed improvents to testnet4 etc so probably shouldn't have made the shitcoiner comment when I don't understand the situation. my apologies. would like to read your posts about the topic before forming a proper opinion :)

You can either read my Bitcoin development mailing list post or wait a week to read my essay on this topic.

where can I find said post?

I believe it’s because people started testing runes on testnet, then started selling testnet runes and testnet-Bitcoin. So attacking the chain was a fairly effective but coarse way to stop that.

A testnet reset is being discussed on the mailing list (testnet4) but a reset has not happened for ages so opinions are mixed so there’s not currently consensus on what exactly to do

interestinggg, thank you very much for the context sir🫡

There is also signet, which is a different testnet that works more like Liquid where blocks aren’t mined by hashing, instead they’re just signed by a set of known keys. Mutinynet is another signet.

Arguably signet is better for testing Lightning as the blocks are more predictable and shenanigans like Lopp’s attack can’t happen - testnet is useful for testing anything that needs the chain to behave more like actual Bitcoin (mining software, ASICs, reorgs etc)

was actually trying to check the difference the other day😂, really appreciate the explanations mate 💯

If you are wondering why you can't access the testnet, thanks Jameson Lopp. 😒

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My Testnet Zeus has problems to synchronize this amount of new blocks 😒

We’ve been seeing that the last week or so.

Looking into alternatives but there’s a lot of work to do to get the ZEUS embedded node working with other networks, unfortunately.