[Bitcoin-development] Testnet under attack?

[Bitcoin-development] Testnet under attack?

[Mike Belshe]

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It appears that someone is minting new blocks literally every couple of
seconds on the testnet chain right now.

You can see it on both blockexplorer:
   http://blockexplorer.com/testnet

and also btclook:
  http://testnet.btclook.com/

Is this something we should worry about?

thanks,
Mike

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Re: [Bitcoin-development] Testnet under attack?

[Mike Hearn]

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I don't use testnet much anymore, partly because it sometimes kind of
breaks like this. It's a public resource and people sometimes abuse it.

You can create your own local network with -regtest and that lets you mint
new blocks instantly. It's a much simpler way to do testing and app
development.


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Mike Belshe <mike@belshe.com> wrote:

> It appears that someone is minting new blocks literally every couple of
> seconds on the testnet chain right now.
>
> You can see it on both blockexplorer:
>    http://blockexplorer.com/testnet
>
> and also btclook:
>   http://testnet.btclook.com/
>
> Is this something we should worry about?
>
> thanks,
> Mike
>
>
>
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