From: Dennison Bertram <dennison@dennisonbertram•com>
To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin-Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:46:41 +0200 [thread overview]
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Is there a relatively easy way to switch between Testnet versions in the
client? On the forums I am in discussion with one member who mentioned the
idea of a Main net, a testnet and a "beta-net" where the coins on the
beta-net would be allowed to have value. It seems like simple and logical
way to do this would be something like a "testnet=1, testnetversion=3" in
the bitcoin.conf file. Is this possible?
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Dennison Bertram <
dennison@dennisonbertram•com> wrote:
> Why use ripple and not just use the testnet?
>
> The advantageous of allowing testnet to be used as an alt-coin are
> That Non standard transactions can be tested in a pseudo live environment
> where because the coins have some nominal value people are incentivized to
> try and steal and come up with clever ways of gamin the system. This sort
> of knowledge would be invaluable if non standard transactions are ever
> going to become a reality on main net.
>
> It also allows developers a chance to develop in advance new technologies
> and services that currently won't run on bitcoin main net but might be
> enabled in the future at which point they can switch over to main net.
> Additionally without any development happening with non standard
> transactions as currently there is no economic incentive , there might be a
> strong argument to never bother enabling non standard transactions as the
> risk of doing so might not justify in many people's minds the benefits as
> if no one develops anything in advance most users might not find the
> theoretical possibilities worth the risk, thus permanently hobbling the
> full potential of satoshis idea. Rather if testnet were allowed to act as
> an alt coin something cool might be developed that the main net users might
> desire enough to overcome the inertia of the status quo.
>
> Additionally it should be considered that the time in the future when non
> standard transactions might be enabled might be so far in the future when
> bitcoin has hit mass adoption and changing anything might require far more
> political negotiations between users and devs then currently. Meaning that
> perhaps much more proof of functionality and value as well as testing might
> e required.
>
> Dennison
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 15, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail•com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> On 19 May 2013 15:23, Adam Back <adam@cypherspace•org> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to experiment with new features - eg committed coins - that
>> doesnt involve an altcoin in the conventional sense, and also doesnt
>> impose
>> a big testing burden on bitcoin main which is a security and testing risk?
>>
>> eg lets say some form of merged mine where an alt-coin lets call it
>> bitcoin-staging? where the coins are the same coins as on bitcoin, the
>> mining power goes to bitcoin main, so some aspect of merged mining, but no
>> native mining. and ability to use bitcoins by locking them on bitcoin to
>> move them to bitcoin-staging and vice versa (ie exchange them 1:1
>> cryptographically, no exchange).
>>
>> Did anyone figure anything like that out? Seems vaguely doable and
>> maybe productive. The only people with coins at risk of defects in a new
>> feature, or insufficiently well tested novel feature are people with coins
>> on bitcoin-staging.
>>
>> Yes I know about bitcoin-test this is not it. I mean a real live system,
>> with live value, but that is intentionally wanting to avoid forking
>> bitcoins
>> parameters, nor value, nor mindshare dillution. In this way something
>> potentially interesting could move forward faster, and be les risky to the
>> main bitcoin network. eg particularly defenses against
>>
>> It might also be a more real world test test (after bitcoin-test) because
>> some parameters are different on test, and some issues may not manifest
>> without more real activity.
>>
>> Then also bitcoin could cherry pick interesting patches and merge them
>> after
>> extensive real-world validation with real-money at stake (by early
>> adopters).
>>
>
> Interesting idea. I wonder if ripple could be used to set up a transfer
> system between the 'main' and 'staging' systems ...
>
>
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-19 13:23 Adam Back
2013-05-19 15:08 ` Peter Vessenes
2013-05-20 6:34 ` Alan Reiner
2013-10-14 18:08 ` Adam Back
2013-10-14 18:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-11-21 20:22 ` coinscoins
2013-11-21 20:35 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-11-21 21:11 ` [Bitcoin-development] bitcoin 1.x & 0.x in parallel (Re: is there a way to do bitcoin-staging?) Adam Back
2014-03-16 22:58 ` [Bitcoin-development] 2-way pegging " Adam Back
2014-03-16 23:22 ` Jorge Timón
2014-03-17 15:55 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-10-14 18:43 ` [Bitcoin-development] is there a way to do bitcoin-staging? Michael Gronager
2013-10-14 20:20 ` Alan Reiner
2013-05-22 3:37 ` zooko
2013-05-22 4:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-05-20 7:12 ` Luke-Jr
2013-06-13 13:39 ` Adam Back
2013-06-14 19:20 ` Peter Todd
2013-06-14 20:50 ` Adam Back
2013-06-14 21:10 ` Luke-Jr
2013-06-14 21:25 ` Andreas Petersson
2013-06-15 0:09 ` Dennison Bertram
2013-06-15 1:57 ` Luke-Jr
2013-06-15 8:43 ` Dennison Bertram
2013-06-15 11:18 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-06-15 13:26 ` Dennison Bertram
2013-06-16 15:46 ` Dennison Bertram [this message]
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