Before to all i want to remember to everybody
that TESTNET coins are worthless and never supposed to have any real value.Quoting:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/TestnetTestnet coins are separate and distinct from actual bitcoins, and are never supposed to have any value.
The only value that they provide are experience for developers, testers and other people that want to undertand and practice how bitcoin works without spend real bitcoins.
I am doing recently some test on testnet to test features like CPFP, RBF and FullRBF, testing scripts and a long etc...
But something change in the difficult of testnet in the last hours, somebody is mining like 5 blocks per second, so if someone wants to learn how to mining they can try Testnet on this momment.
Quoting againt the bitcoin.it page
Minimum difficulty of 1.0 on testnet is equal to difficulty of 0.5 on mainnet. This means that the mainnet-equivalent of any testnet difficulty is half the testnet difficulty. In addition, if no block has been found in 20 minutes, the difficulty automatically resets back to the minimum for a single block, after which it returns to its previous value.
According to it, the difficulty is reset to the minimum for a single block and then ir should return to the minimum. But in this ocassion that doesn't happend, i guess that the difficulty just drop to the minimun.
See it on real time on
https://mempool.space/testnetThe block mined by a single addres are from 2477663 to 2481082 up to this time, not much just like 4 thousand blocks.
Anyway this is just a little interesting for me because mining is a new topic for me.
Regards
