I think I mentioned it before, but seems semi-relevant to this thread so I'd like to throw my vote behind pretty tiny blocks on testnet (like max 50-100k weight) to try help simulate a fee-market like situation.
(Although lately there's been a lot of testnet spam and full blocks, which has really made testing easier. But I don't know how long this situation will last) -Ryan ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On August 30, 2018 7:06 PM, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:21 PM Johnson Lau via bitcoin-dev > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > A public testnet is still useful so in articles people could make > > references to these transactions. > > Maybe we could have 2 testnets at the same time, with one having a smaller > > block size? > > I would much rather have a signed blocks testnet, with a predictable > structured reorg pattern* (and a config flag so you can make your node > ignore all blocks that are going to get reorged out in a reorg of nth > or larger). There are many applications where the mined testnet just > doesn't give you anything useful... it's too stable when you want it > to be a bit unstable and too wildly unstable when you want a bit of > stability-- e.g. there are very few test cases where a 20,000 block > reorg does anything useful for you; yet they happen on testnet. > > We looked at doing this previously in Bitcoin core and jtimon had some > patches, but the existing approach increased the size of the > blockindex objects in memory while not in signed testnet mode. This > could probably have been fixed by turning one of the fields like the > merkel root into a union of it's normal value and a pointer a > look-aside block index that is used only in signed block testnet mode. > > Obviously such a mode wouldn't be a replacement for an ordinary > testnet, but it would be a useful middle ground between regtest (that > never sees anything remotely surprising and can't easily be used for > collaborative testing) and full on testnet where your attempts to test > against ordinary noise require you cope your entirely universe being > removed from existence and replaced by something almost but not quite > entirely different at the whim of some cthulhuian blind idiot god. > > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
