Bitcoin Testnet Needed: Prefer USA based Miners

[acatalano]

Transitioning from SOL App Development to building BTC apps. Have found it laughable how hard it is to obtain Bitcoin BTC on Testnet with broken faucets out there. Unlike Test SOL or Test ETH which is available at all times.

Obviously, I need Testnet BTC for development.  Need .005 BTC Testnet for pilot project Would be willing to pay $50 in SOL to a miner for the .005 on BTC Testnet.  Let me know if there are any miners out there who can assist. Would need to do the same transaction for Dec - March. 

[gmaxwell]

If you want testnet coins you'll need to buy them-- that's a consequence of a market existing for them.

[dryan86]

Transitioning from SOL App Development to building BTC apps. Have found it laughable how hard it is to obtain Bitcoin BTC on Testnet with broken faucets out there. Unlike Test SOL or Test ETH which is available at all times.

Obviously, I need Testnet BTC for development.  Need .005 BTC Testnet for pilot project Would be willing to pay $50 in SOL to a miner for the .005 on BTC Testnet.  Let me know if there are any miners out there who can assist. Would need to do the same transaction for Dec - March. 

hi, i have testnet4 and signet BTC,you can contact me by telegram:    https://t.me/+rA5UyxHumjpkZDY9

[testnet.sale]

For low amounts (0.005 tBTC), there is this faucet: https://faucet.testnet4.dev/.  For higher amounts, (100+ tBTC), you can buy them at my website (https://testnet.sale) or at the exchange altquick.com.

I have not tested the faucets.  If you want only 0.005 tBTC, post an address and I'll send them.

[BayAreaCoins]

We are the main Testnet exchange at https://altquick.com/exchange/ for both v3 and v4 Bitcoin Testnet.  (I say main because we allow both buying and selling to let the market find the price.)

You can use the exchange without registering and convert the SOL to Testnet using https://altquick.com/swap/, but please keep in mind it uses the books to trade on our site only (so review the books first and pray like hell they don't fill before you confirm!). $50 should be dust and move right through the system and you'll have a ton of Testnet coins in <10 minutes.

If you want testnet coins you'll need to buy them-- that's a consequence of a market existing for them.

A consequence of our market is that people can actually get them period.  Bulk for pay or dust for free.  With a sustainable business model.

When I first got involved with Cryptocurrency, I had to use Bitcoin because Bitcoin Testnet was, as the OP says, laughably difficult to get.


We also do support a free testnet faucet https://altquick.com/faucet/.  You can claim 0.01 Testnet of either version every ten minutes.  The cost to withdraw is 0.01 Testnet, so in 20 minutes and two captcha solves you'll have free coins on chain.

Free Testnet is still available for both v3 and v4 with AltQuick, but we are having difficulty marketing due to our taboo market pairs.  (Which I understand, but I still believe AltQuick deserves to be listed as a Testnet v3 & v4 faucet option on the Wiki.)

Happy to send you some for free with our automated faucet, or if you want 100,000 coins in 15 minutes... we can accommodate that for either version.  I'm sure https://coinfaucet.eu/en/btc-testnet3/ and https://coinfaucet.eu/en/btc-testnet4/ work fine too faucet wise.


You can still totally mine v4 50tbtc reward blocks... but it is likely far faster & cheaper for us to buy them, unless you know how to "fancy mine".  Which will hopefully be patched early january according to the Bitcoin Mailing list thread about "unbreaking testnet".

I threw a rented miner and hit a block with an normal pool too.

block 100680   tb1q9qa5vcsz2nwd3etl46y56z7ckj75zjd5e8c5z3   AltQuickCOM   8457d705

Testnet has mining pool options now days:  https://solopool.com/, https://btclab.dev/, https://blockbuilder.app/stats - and a few others that I cant recall off the top of my head.  When I joined Bitcoin many moons ago, there was zero pools for n00bs to test in.

Solopool just hit their first big boy Bitcoin block!




Also, we are US-based.   <3

Good luck, and please let me know if I can help from our end!!!

[LoyceV]

Have found it laughable how hard it is to obtain Bitcoin BTC on Testnet with broken faucets out there.

Testnet is broken:

Does any of you have some bitcoin testnet coins?

v4: loads.
v3: nope.

Both testnets are severely broken now: v3 coins are hard to get, v4 takes hours to get a confirmation because someone mines only empty blocks.

If you want v4, there are 13 coins left in QR-codes on page 2:

The QR-codes I created are for testnet4 (and all addresses on the first page have 1 testnet coin each).
PDF: loyce.club/other/print_two-sided.pdf (anyone who needs testnet4 coins: take some, but leave some for someone else)

(but don't ask me which are taken, I don't know)

If anyone's interested, I can just fund the 300 QR-codes on page 4 too

[achow101]

Post an address and whether you need testnet3 or testnet4, I've got a few thousand of each lying around.

[BayAreaCoins]

I want to point out that, despite a market existing, we have four people here bending over backwards to give this stranger free coins in the hopes they build something cool.

I suspect that as testnet distribution grows, the number of generous people out here will grow with it... which is a good thing.  It's a niche that's long since sailed with Bitcoin.

Good job, everyone, and good luck, OP. *salutes*

[gmaxwell]

Don't be so defensive. That wasn't intended as any kind of barb, against you or anyone else. 

[Somegory]

Transitioning from SOL App Development to building BTC apps. Have found it laughable how hard it is to obtain Bitcoin BTC on Testnet with broken faucets out there. Unlike Test SOL or Test ETH which is available at all times.

Obviously, I need Testnet BTC for development.  Need .005 BTC Testnet for pilot project Would be willing to pay $50 in SOL to a miner for the .005 on BTC Testnet.  Let me know if there are any miners out there who can assist. Would need to do the same transaction for Dec - March. 

What does location has to do with this though? Bitcoin and it's testnet works anywhere in the world, there is no restrictions on any part of Bitcoin Blockchain.

[BayAreaCoins]

Don't be so defensive. That wasn't intended as any kind of barb, against you or anyone else. 

Haha, fair enough, my bad.  <3

[NotATether]

If you want testnet coins you'll need to buy them-- that's a consequence of a market existing for them.

This is quite bad - the whole point of having a testnet is for developers to be able to test their applications without spending real money.

Any idea why signet isn't getting more adoption? It is the perfect solution to this problem.

[LoyceV]

Any idea why signet isn't getting more adoption? It is the perfect solution to this problem.

Allow me to share my experience:

Until now, I had been using Feather wallet for Monero Stagenet testing. But Monero GUI Wallet turns out to be more fun. It took a lot longer than expected to sync, but after that it's very easy to start mining. I quote: "It gives you a 1 in 1 daily chance of finding a block". So instead of scraping dust from faucets, all of a sudden I'm a Monero Stagenet whale If anyone wants a coin, let me know. Or just buy it with my brand new 1 XMR offer on Bridgoro at 5% discount

Note: I haven't used Bitcoin Stagenet yet. But if you want to test an exchange and have different coins interacting, it's really annoying having to "collect" them.

[BlackHatCoiner]

Any idea why signet isn't getting more adoption? It is the perfect solution to this problem.

• Not all wallets support signet. I think more wallets support testnet, so there's a network effect there.
• Signet is centralized and I suspect this immediately feels a taboo. Whereas testnet is decentralized, with only three CPU miners broadcasting empty blocks! 
• Testnet gives you the ability to mine it, just like bitcoin, so there's mining tested.

One good question is why isn't testnet4 hardforked already? It's constantly on empty-block mode until an ASIC mines a non-empty block. This could be easily fixed by revoking the 20-min rule.

[stwenhao]

Any idea why signet isn't getting more adoption?

Because it is centralized. Signet miners can do anything: for example, a single ASIC could reorg the full signet chain at any moment. The only missing thing is having a key to the signet challenge.

However, mining in Signet is possible, to some extent: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/proof-of-work-based-signet-faucet/937

But if you want to test an exchange and have different coins interacting, it's really annoying having to "collect" them.

In the past, mining hundreds of sBTC was easier: https://mempool.space/signet/tx/5aa27f3639c2218ee710fee9830924a129098dca94446661f37cae79c4e76712

But now, as more and more people started mining from the same faucet, it is harder. But still possible to get something every 10 or 20 blocks, which means around 25 sBTC per day.

One good question is why isn't testnet4 hardforked already?

1. Because hard-fork would create a new testnet. Which means, that we would then have: testnet3, testnet4, and testnet5.
2. Because it is planned for 2026: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/iVLHJ1HWhoU

[BlackHatCoiner]

1. Because hard-fork would create a new testnet. Which means, that we would then have: testnet3, testnet4, and testnet5.

I don't think it would. Disabling the 20-min rule could also be done as a softfork, even though I'm unsure what would be more preferable for a test network. For instance, after block x, same rules apply except the 20 min rule. You wouldn't need a new chain nor a new network.

2. Because it is planned for 2026: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/iVLHJ1HWhoU

It was planned for January 2026, but the last message was sent in July 2025. Also, I see many proposals in that thread, without clear consensus on the exclusion of the 20-min rule. I also do not see any pull requests into Bitcoin Core.

Maybe I review it and do my part. I've started a thread in here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5569103.msg66199834#msg66199834.

[BayAreaCoins]

why sell something that literally has zero value on the mainnet, people are weird

It makes sense to sell something that has no value for something that does, but the million-dollar question is, why are there buyers?

People are weird, and they are creative on top of that... which makes it even weirder.

I think there's value for Bitcoin in letting folks be weird and creative.

[pooya87]

why sell something that literally has zero value on the mainnet, people are weird

If you think that's weird you should have been around back in 2017 when exchanges were selling coins that were dead (dead shitcoins without a blockchain which their mining had died months before) and even during the "bitcoin fork war" they created markets for possible split-coins like bitcoin-classic, bitcoin-segwit2x and people were trading what didn't even exist and never existed afterwards either! They had high trading volume and everything too

[Eze BTC]

Any idea why signet isn't getting more adoption? It is the perfect solution to this problem.

• Not all wallets support signet. I think more wallets support testnet, so there's a network effect there.
• Signet is centralized and I suspect this immediately feels a taboo. Whereas testnet is decentralized, with only three CPU miners broadcasting empty blocks! 
• Testnet gives you the ability to mine it, just like bitcoin, so there's mining tested.

One good question is why isn't testnet4 hardforked already? It's constantly on empty-block mode until an ASIC mines a non-empty block. This could be easily fixed by revoking the 20-min rule.

Concerning the 20-min rule you raised, I support it should be revoked. It shows typical technical lag that has held Testnet in this current condition. Making challenges to reset one after those 20-min of quietness, it makes Testnet prone to block storms by anybody including modest ASIC thereby becoming a suppression to timed deals and also fee projection that developers aim to check.