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Topic: Have you ever looked at the Bitcoin testnet? - page 2. (Read 1135 times)

hero member
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I was reading something on reddit that said they've had three testnets now as people kept trying to monetize it.  It occurred to me that I'm barely aware of the testnet and have never checked it out.

Is this something that people here do regularly? Do you load up on testnet coins and fantasize about then being real?  Do you learn stuff from it?

If you have to ask this kind of question better leave it alone. It's just unnecessary.
legendary
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. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet

I guess it was an attempt to turn it directly into some sort of alt,  not experiment with creating one. According the above they shut down previous versions because of that.
legendary
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Testnet are for testing and unless you're a developer or someone who really wants to learn through practice you don't need to use it.
Agree, unless u want to develope something around Bitcoin u shouldn't look at it at all Smiley
It has marginal use cases for expert users.
hero member
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Testnet are for testing and unless you're a developer or someone who really wants to learn through practice you don't need to use it.
But what do you mean by trying to monetize it? As in using it to learn how to create an altcoin or something?
legendary
Activity: 1288
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I was reading something on reddit that said they've had three testnets now as people kept trying to monetize it.  It occurred to me that I'm barely aware of the testnet and have never checked it out.

Is this something that people here do regularly? Do you load up on testnet coins and fantasize about then being real?  Do you learn stuff from it?
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