From: Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail•com>
To: Emil Engler <me@emilengler•com>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>,
Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] testnet4
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2019 09:21:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABaSBawPvOoTwQYQ0ZQc20b3g9GMp_fdz7cogHW25o40iF2UeA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <205859a9-635a-e958-a03f-8d9a35e0da1a@emilengler.com>
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Be greeted Emil,
On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 9:21 AM Emil Engler via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Hello, I tried myself with some Bitcoin development. For this I used of
> course the Bitcoin testnet. However it took me one hour to sync the
> blockchain with around 1538358 blocks. In my opinion that is too much
> for a testnet. Especially the blockchain size with around 26GB is so
> much. Would it be possible to reset the testnet with a new genesis block
> ? And if so, can we setup a fixed cycle for resetting the testnet (For
> example every second 1st of January) ?
>
At the moment, I somewhat doubt this is likely to happen. Signet provides
an alternative for configuring multiple separate private and public testing
networks. If you would like to get involved, check out the recent
discussion on the topic recorded here:
http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2019-06-07-signet/
- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-08 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-07 23:49 Emil Engler
2019-06-08 14:21 ` Bryan Bishop [this message]
2019-06-08 15:01 ` Emil Engler
2019-06-16 20:25 ` Peter Todd
2019-06-17 11:41 ` Emil Engler
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