> The given rationale for a difficulty reset was to let developers occasionally mine blocks on their laptop.
This rationale is partially solved by Signet faucets. Miners constantly sweep coins from signet addresses like tb1pruektj90gg8nysa7yuk07w7ucwlywrf4p02lq3sz49f05xd00djscyt2fw, tb1pffsyra2t3nut94yvdae9evz3feg7tel843pfcv76vt5cwewavtesl3gsph, or tb1pf2v25yk7m8mv203pvjusmk2a8r6tu8p59nhvwux86ck3s3pp0nkqt30dvt. The only missing thing, is buying a given coinbase transaction, or block, by a given user. Because now, it is centralized in the hands of signet creators. However, if it would be possible to pay the same or greater amount, as set in the coinbase transaction (which now means 25 sBTC or more) and be rewarded with some block, or coinbase transaction, then it would pretty much cover it. Because when it comes to being rewarded, it is covered by the mining faucet. The only missing part is the control, related to manually constructing a block. As far as I know, this is the only case, where testers need to switch from signet to testnet: to test some aspects of mining. > I propose to fix this by removing the difficulty reset rule from testnet4 through a flag day hard fork on 2026-01-01. This date is quite close. Even if we add a week or two, it is quite likely, that either something will be deployed in the nearest future, or it won't happen at all, and we will be stuck with what we have. For now, I switched from testnet4 to signet, but I wonder, how it will turn out. Also, using some constructions, based on OP_CAT, or something similar, may be enough, to mine both at the same time, through Merged Mining. Which would then mean, that people could try to mine testnet4 blocks, and also hit signet coins from faucets, with the same power. pon., 31 mar 2025 o 22:50 'Antoine Poinsot' via Bitcoin Development Mailing List <[email protected]> napisał(a): > Good point on not having the flag day on a holiday. One or two weeks > sounds good to me. > > > > > On Monday, March 24th, 2025 at 8:25 AM, Murch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Errr, I wrote the same date as you, but I meant a week later, 2026-01-08 > > instead. > > > > -Murch > > > > On 2025-03-21 14:20, Murch wrote: > > > > > Hey Antoine and everyone, > > > > > > What you suggest makes sense to me. Since the 20-minute difficulty > > > exception is now exploited perpetually, it doesn’t serve its intended > > > purpose of allowing developers to mine themselves a few coins easily or > > > confirm their own non-standard transactions. In that case, it would be > > > better to not have it at all. > > > > > > On 2025-03-18 07:29, 'Antoine Poinsot' via Bitcoin Development Mailing > > > List wrote: > > > > > > > I propose to fix this by removing the difficulty reset rule from > > > > testnet4 through a flag day hard fork on 2026-01-01. > > > > > > I would suggest to pick a date that’s not a holiday in many places to > > > avoid disrupting people’s holiday, how about 2026-01-01 instead? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Murch > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Bitcoin Development Mailing List" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bitcoindev/7c6800f0-7b77-4aca-a4f9-2506a2410b29%40murch.one > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Bitcoin Development Mailing List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bitcoindev/vgcVopNpWCowIGaIpVgjsCWyTMjxVKoWtRdDVnTNrM8tYPjKtC6MJ6S-2KxIYdJYgAhG8iNPig-xijwd7DtAm6tHN3T3xgIMUNUSTBYvT_A%3D%40protonmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Bitcoin Development Mailing List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bitcoindev/CACgYNOLc%3Dc5jx8jWGbCczKkLhPNq_%2BgLNxKi3Tf50-oPQhWuRQ%40mail.gmail.com.
