> On Sep 13, 2021, at 05:30, Michael Folkson <michaelfolk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> >> Can you explain the motivation for this? From where I sit, as far as I know, >> I should basically be > a prime example of the target market for public >> signet - someone developing bitcoin applications > with regular requirements >> to test those applications with other developers without >> jumping through hoops to configure software the same across the globe and >> set up miners. >> With blocks > being slow and irregular, I’m basically not benefited at all >> by signet and will >> stick with testnet3/mainnet testing, which both suck. > > On testnet3 you can realistically go days without blocks being found > (and conversely thousands of blocks can be found in a day), the block > discovery time variance is huge. Of course this is probabilistically > possible on mainnet too but the probability of this happening is close > to zero. Here[0] is an example of 16,000 blocks being found in a day > on testnet3.
Blocks too fast isn’t generally an issue when waiting for blocks to test, and hooking up a miner is probably less work on testnet3 than creating a multi-party private signet with miners. In any case, you didn’t address the substance of the point - we can do better to make it a good platform for testing…. Why aren’t we? _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev