[Bitcoin-development] Proposal: make the private key for testnet genesis block public

[Bitcoin-development] Proposal: make the private key for testnet genesis block public

[Peter Todd]

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As the title says.

Basically on testnet we should give people the chance to test how their
code handles attempts to spend the genesis block coinbase, as well as
other tx's made to the genesis block address. After all, potentially
Satoshi is still out there, still has that key, and still may cause
exactly that situation himself.

So Gavin, if you have the private key for testnet3's coinbase, I'm
asking you to release it, and otherwise fix this for the eventual
testnet4

Of course, obviously you can test this case yourself with a private
testnet, but it'd be good if people we forced to test this case against
their will...

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'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org

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Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: make the private key for testnet genesis block public

[Jeff Garzik]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> Basically on testnet we should give people the chance to test how their
> code handles attempts to spend the genesis block coinbase, as well as
> other tx's made to the genesis block address. After all, potentially
> Satoshi is still out there, still has that key, and still may cause
> exactly that situation himself.

ACK

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Jeff Garzik
exMULTI, Inc.
jgarzik@exmulti.com

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: make the private key for testnet genesis block public

[Gavin Andresen]

The testnet3 genesis block is identical to the main network genesis
block, except it has a different timestamp and nonce.

So its coinbase pays to the same public key as the main network. I
don't have that private key.

Good idea for testnet4, whenever that happens, though.

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Gavin Andresen