[Bitcoin-development] Testnet under attack?

2013-11-15 Thread Mike Belshe
It appears that someone is minting new blocks literally every couple of seconds on the testnet chain right now. You can see it on both blockexplorer: http://blockexplorer.com/testnet and also btclook: http://testnet.btclook.com/ Is this something we should worry about? thanks, Mike

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Testnet under attack?

2013-11-15 Thread Mike Hearn
I don't use testnet much anymore, partly because it sometimes kind of breaks like this. It's a public resource and people sometimes abuse it. You can create your own local network with -regtest and that lets you mint new blocks instantly. It's a much simpler way to do testing and app development.