{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub10plv6jx6pktpp5ezldnus6kj8ffg045g2kdjl78w23njrlveqy5s3pfaef","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub10plv6jx6pktpp5ezldnus6kj8ffg045g2kdjl78w23njrlveqy5s3pfaef","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-06-23\n📝 Original message:I don't think essentially replacing most of Testnet with a specialised \ntest chain is a good idea, but this might be a good time to consider a \n4th test network with very large blocks from genesis onwards.\n\nI do tend to think 2 years of 8mb blocks is excessive as a test, too, \nand while certainly large projects should have or can raise funds for \ntest infrastructure, I would worry about the smaller stuff out there. Is \nthere anything specific 2 years gives us over, say, 6 months?\n\nRoss\n\nOn 22/06/2015 20:23, Peter Todd wrote:\n\u003e On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 02:18:19PM -0400, Gavin Andresen wrote:\n\u003e\u003e I promised to write a BIP after I'd implemented\n\u003e\u003e increase-the-maximum-block-size code, so here it is. It also lives at:\n\u003e\u003e https://github.com/gavinandresen/bips/blob/blocksize/bip-8MB.mediawiki\n\u003e It's important that we see a wide range of realistic testing of what an\n\u003e 8MB limit could look in the near future. An important part of that\n\u003e testing is load testing.\n\u003e\n\u003e As of writing the BIP above has no mention of what switchover rules will\n\u003e be used for testnet; code floating around has August 1st 2015 as that\n\u003e date. I propose we use August 1st 2013.\n\u003e\n\u003e This switch over date should be set in the _past_ to allow for the\n\u003e creation (via reorg) of a realistic full-load blockchain on testnet to\n\u003e fully test the real-world behavior of the entire infrastructure\n\u003e ecosystem, including questions like the scalability of block explorers,\n\u003e SPV wallets, feasibility of initial syncronization, scalability of the\n\u003e UTXO set, etc. While this is of course inconvenient - 2 years of 8MB\n\u003e blocks is 840GB worth of data - the Bitcoin ecosystem can-not afford to\n\u003e make a change like this blindly.\n\u003e\n\u003e I'm sure with a $3.5 billion market cap at stake we can scrape together\n\u003e the resources to voluntarily run a few hundred full-load full-nodes for\n\u003e testing a change with the potential to destroy that market cap.\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e _______________________________________________\n\u003e bitcoin-dev mailing list\n\u003e bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\n\u003e https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev\n\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150623/7a41e361/attachment.html\u003e"}