Subject: Re: [bitcoindev] Unbreaking testnet4

From: Murch <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 05:25:54 -0700

Errr, I wrote the same date as you, but I meant a week later, 2026-01-08 
instead.

-Murch

On 2025-03-21 14:20, Murch wrote:
> Hey Antoine and everyone,
> 
> What you suggest makes sense to me. Since the 20-minute difficulty 
> exception is now exploited perpetually, it doesn’t serve its intended 
> purpose of allowing developers to mine themselves a few coins easily or 
> confirm their own non-standard transactions. In that case, it would be 
> better to not have it at all.
> 
> On 2025-03-18 07:29, 'Antoine Poinsot' via Bitcoin Development Mailing 
> List wrote:
>  > I propose to fix this by removing the difficulty reset rule from
>  > testnet4 through a flag day hard fork on 2026-01-01.
> 
> I would suggest to pick a date that’s not a holiday in many places to 
> avoid disrupting people’s holiday, how about 2026-01-01 instead?
> 
> Cheers,
> Murch
> 

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