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. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
