Testnet on steroids today

[-ck]

I wonder if someone was thinking they would hoard a bunch of testnet coins, I know this has happened in the past and that's why testnet was reset (twice).  I hope it doesn't have to get reset again because the more often that testnet gets reset, the less complexity and length it has and less of a good model for mainnet it is.

Your assumption is correct, though I've  made it clear that's not acceptable.

I mined some Testnet coins just for fun.
I offer to sell at a very low, symbolic price of 0.0001 BTC per Testnet coin.

I gave out 1000 testnet coins for nothing. You want 0.1BTC for that amount. That's not symbolic...  120,000 testnet coins have been minted in under a week on my free testnet pool with hardware that would mine 0.1BTC over about 6 months mining real bitcoin... Symbolic would be 1 satoshi per testnet bitcoin.

[laurentmt]

Anyone want some testnet coins? I've got the odd thousand spare...  

If you still have some test bucks to share, would you mind sending some to this address : mryyjA6YpPCJ24MsSN7YnCK6M3NZoUAwxb ?
The address is used for one of my demos
Thx !

EDIT: Just saw your last message about coins sent to the faucet. Never mind !

[Walter Rothbard]

I wonder if someone was thinking they would hoard a bunch of testnet coins, I know this has happened in the past and that's why testnet was reset (twice).  I hope it doesn't have to get reset again because the more often that testnet gets reset, the less complexity and length it has and less of a good model for mainnet it is.

If coin hoarding is not a problem for Bitcoin, then why would it be a problem for testnet?

[shorena]

I wonder if someone was thinking they would hoard a bunch of testnet coins, I know this has happened in the past and that's why testnet was reset (twice).  I hope it doesn't have to get reset again because the more often that testnet gets reset, the less complexity and length it has and less of a good model for mainnet it is.

If coin hoarding is not a problem for Bitcoin, then why would it be a problem for testnet?

Its not a problem for bitcoin if they are sparse, but its a problem for testcoins. Sucks to test something if you dont have to coins to test with.

[dexX7]

Posted a day ago:

Note to self, testnet is being mined heavily with almost 10,000 blocks in the last 24 hours