From: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@jtimon•cc>
To: Danny Thorpe <danny.thorpe@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin is an experiment. Why don't we have an experimental hardfork?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:29:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABm2gDp69g8H4Was2qzixPq3qwQ_smzzeFpE+y2GYEK6F4kUrw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJN5wHXRwQZ6YmiZiCE9Gx4d-3FTzy1Zv7i2noia0mwtRwVL+w@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> Ya, so? All that means is that the experiment might reach the hard fork tipping point faster than mainnet would. Verifying that the network can handle such transitions, and how larger blocks affect the network, is the point of testing.
>
> And when I refer to testnet, I mean the public global testnet blockchain, not in-house isolated networks like testnet-in-a-box.
I would expect any uncontroversial hardfork to be deployed in testnet3
before it is deployed in bitcoin's main chain.
In any case, you can already do these tests using
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6382
Note that even if the new testchains are regtest-like (ie cheap proof
of work) you don't need to test them "in-a-box": you can run them from
many different places.
Rusty's test ( http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=509 ) could have been
perfectly made using #6382, it just didn't existed at the time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-19 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-18 9:54 jl2012
2015-08-18 11:57 ` Micha Bailey
2015-08-18 18:52 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-18 20:48 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-08-18 20:51 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-18 21:06 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-08-18 21:17 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-18 21:39 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-08-19 9:29 ` Jorge Timón [this message]
2015-08-19 10:14 ` odinn
2015-08-19 11:06 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-19 11:25 ` odinn
2015-08-19 15:22 ` jl2012
2015-08-19 15:48 ` Tier Nolan
2015-08-19 15:25 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-19 17:30 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-08-19 18:33 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-18 22:51 ` Ahmed Zsales
2015-08-19 2:53 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-19 9:24 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-19 10:34 ` jl2012
2015-08-19 10:53 ` Jorge Timón
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