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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Mike Belshe <mike@belshe.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Testnet under attack?
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 21:02:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP1_vkosrRpouzRqZRFo8z0iNXzR14F1GU=yWZ66gZUtNw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABaLYCufS4pW644S9q63YfZNECtRW5jhJRw3-vozNz1=N50oHQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-15 19:34 [Bitcoin-development] Testnet under attack? Mike Belshe
2013-11-15 20:02 ` Mike Hearn [this message]

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