Ability to configure an arbitrary testnet genesis block #6015

issue davout opened this issue on April 15, 2015

davout commented at 10:52 AM on April 15, 2015: none

It would be very useful to be able to easily generate/configure an arbitrary testnet genesis block.

It would help a lot with regards to people pointing ASICs to testnet, ruining it for everyone else on one hand. On the other hand, if that problem is solved, it would allow testnet to behave exactly like main net (it would be possible to remove the weird "if no block has been mined for 20 minutes, accept blocks at diff 1").

That would make seeding peers impossible unless you specify them, but it would make testing so much easier in a lot of cases.
laanwj added the label Feature on May 18, 2015
laanwj added the label Priority Low on May 18, 2015
laanwj removed the label Priority Low on Dec 6, 2017
MarcoFalke added the label Tests on Jan 24, 2018
MarcoFalke removed the label Feature on Jan 24, 2018
MarcoFalke commented at 1:05 AM on January 24, 2018: member

This is probably solved by #2632
MarcoFalke closed this on Jan 24, 2018
meshcollider commented at 1:09 AM on January 24, 2018: contributor

Also relevant is #8994 which does a similar thing with more flexibility
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