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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Reorgs on SigNet - Looking for feedback on
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> On Sep 13, 2021, at 05:30, Michael Folkson <michaelfolkson@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
>=20
> =EF=BB=BF
>>=20
>> Can you explain the motivation for this? =46rom where I sit, as far as I k=
now, I should basically be > a prime example of the target market for public=
signet - someone developing bitcoin applications > with regular requirement=
s to test those applications with other developers without
>> jumping through hoops to configure software the same across the globe and=
set up miners.
>> With blocks > being slow and irregular, I=E2=80=99m basically not benefit=
ed at all by signet and will
>> stick with testnet3/mainnet testing, which both suck.
>=20
> On testnet3 you can realistically go days without blocks being found
> (and conversely thousands of blocks can be found in a day), the block
> discovery time variance is huge. Of course this is probabilistically
> possible on mainnet too but the probability of this happening is close
> to zero. Here[0] is an example of 16,000 blocks being found in a day
> on testnet3.
Blocks too fast isn=E2=80=99t generally an issue when waiting for blocks to t=
est, and hooking up a miner is probably less work on testnet3 than creating a=
multi-party private signet with miners. In any case, you didn=E2=80=99t add=
ress the substance of the point - we can do better to make it a good platfor=
m for testing=E2=80=A6. Why aren=E2=80=99t we?=
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