bitcoind mining in testnet

[victorkimba17]

I use bitcoin core version 0.16.0

Can i change my bitcoin.conf file, so that i can get bitcoins in testnet from mining?

[ManaMan]

I use bitcoin core version 0.16.0

Can i change my bitcoin.conf file, so that i can get bitcoins in testnet from mining?

You might want to read this article written by James Loop, one of the knowledgeable people in crypto community: https://medium.com/@lopp/how-to-solo-mine-on-bitcoin-s-testnet-6073c917b495

You should be able to run the bitcoin client locally and create the blockchain only for you from scratch. This might be a good idea if you want to play with code as then you control mining, difficulty etc.

[victorkimba17]

You might want to read this article written by James Loop, one of the knowledgeable people in crypto community: https://medium.com/@lopp/how-to-solo-mine-on-bitcoin-s-testnet-6073c917b495

You should be able to run the bitcoin client locally and create the blockchain only for you from scratch. This might be a good idea if you want to play with code as then you control mining, difficulty etc.

Thanks. What is the disk space that is needed to run testnet? According to https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/features/requirements  , it is 145 GB disk space for mainnet.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet  , it is 14 GB for testnet.

[ManaMan]

I am not sure how large is the testnet in terms of how much free space will you need on the disk. But since on the wiki it states "As of January 2018 the size of the data on disk was 14GB" I don't think that it grew much more during this time.