Reset is less of a priority right now because the faucet is running again, still seeing huge number of requests
Should still reset because of money making from signet coins
Participants agree that getting coins doesn’t seem to be that hard, just need to ask on IRC or so
Some people get repetitive messages about coins
Signet can be reorged easily with a more work chain, that is actually shorter. Such a chain already exists and can be used any time. This effectively kills the current chain, even if the users have the old blocks they would need to actively invalidate the new chain and they could still not continue mining on it
Would give about 1 month warning before doing it
Someone is working on making regular reorgs of ~5 blocks a reality but harder to do than it seemed, still a solvable problem but needs a bit more time and effort
Using invalidate block doesn’t really work well for this use case
Would be cool to also mine double spends in the reorgs
There is a PR open for doing signet blocks faster than 10min
Signet block weight was restricted at some point due to spam leading to consistently full blocks
Does the more work reorg break pruned nodes on signet? Probably
Testnet
What is different to Signet? Allows you to test mine, closer to mainnet
Stratum v2 doesn’t work with signet challenges (yet?)
Testnet3 should still be supported for one release
Higher minimum difficulty is discussed with no clear outcome, suggestion is to set it a bit lower than 1 million as suggested on ML
Adjustment of retargeting period also discussed, slightly out of favor
For the open PR: Needs test fix to get CI green, then will get review
Several agree that the time to lower the difficulty at 6 hours seems too long
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