Re: [Bitcoin-development] Policy for DNS seeds

2014-07-22 Thread Matt Corallo
Absolutely not. Time and time again we've seen "anonymized" data sets that dont work out so well. I'm sure its possible to do but there are too many factors and we dont want to succumb to this. Also, these generally look good (and essentially the same as what had been a gentleman's agreement for t

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Question on creating test cases for block.CheckBlock()

2014-07-22 Thread Mike Hearn
There is no infrastructure for writing block chain unit tests unfortunately. Last time I tried to fix this I ended up going down a rabbit hole - Bitcoin wasn't written to be a testable codebase and as a result reinitialising it from scratch is rather difficult (there are lots of global variables th