All my testing is done with others, both onchain and offchain, inside and outside LL, mostly asynchronously. I can also tell from my LNBits instance that others are using my node to send sats to and from their wallets/nodes. It’s true that testnet3 liquidity is bad, and since testnet3 has been attacked many nodes fell off the network.
I’m using testnet3 a lot for Lightning Network and Taproot Asset testing. I run an LNBits testnet node too and as of today, I’m fully on testnet3. My node has trouble keeping up but testnet4 won’t be as useful for me for a while.
But isn’t that obviously a bad thing if we fragment into dozens of testnets? As a testnet user I value interacting on it with others, when playing with myself I’m already using regtest
I think that’s a terrible idea, especially since I might also want to try older software on testnet. You’re making me rethink my position, I’m thinking we should revive testnet3 with a simple hard fork
Reset how? The block reward? We should generally avoid moving to new testnets, as we can’t expect people to move their infrastructure. It will take a year or more for a testnet Lightning Network to emerge in significant size and functionality, and many services might never move over, like 1ML
I did notice that testnet4 appeared to be intentionally premined. It’s still correctable though, we have about 150,000 blocks to take out the halvings. 50tBTC forever per block, that way we won’t have to worry about this ever getting a significant price. Begging for coins is not an acceptable way to distribute these resources
I wrote an Amsterdam Lightning trip report!
Where do you suggest I go and get them? I want to get started with my testnet4 Lightning node
So where does one buy these premined testnet4 coins? Need some for an, uhm, project. What’s the rate? Pointers welcome!
Tasting real cocoa beans, drinking unsweetened hot chocolate. Paying with sats! Great stuff! 
Is this the official beer of your Nostr Amsterdam meetup? If not gtfo 
This is what you get for 5299 sats at Amsterdam Bitcoin 
In Amsterdam, getting a Krokette and fries with mayonnaise. Paid with sats! 
Yeah I think all venues treat Bitcoin as a separate cash register. Which makes sense to me
Just between yesterday and today I’ve had a kebap, went to two convenience stores, got tea, gelato, and now I’m at a brewery, all paid with sats. Don’t be sleeping on what’s happening in Vancouver! Make it happen in your hometown too! The time is ripe 
It’s been a very blue day 
Today for the first time I consciously rode a tram roundabout.