Quote from: TheQueen74 on February 23, 2014, 08:42:37 PM

Quote from: Blaksmith on February 23, 2014, 07:47:07 PM

I'm the one in charge of the testnet, as it is mine to begin with anyway. I am keeping it a controlled environment, and will actually be looking for someone to act as a whale to slam the network, at least once per solution that is put on the testnet to be run through the series of tests. Unless I get any kind of donations, then that means that your fee that you are asking, would have to come directly out of my own pocket. I'm already using one of my good servers, that I should be leasing out to others so the server could pay for itself. So, I am already losing around $50 / month just to run these tests and help out the community, so code can be tested for bugs and verify that the code in the solutions selected does what it is supposed to do.

Your 0.011111111 BTC/Hr, at current rates, is not unreasonable, as it is round $6 USD / hour. I will just have to come up with the fundings per run. You will have to be willing to jump on and off exactaly when I specify, so the tests being performed can be considered valid. I do not have any one else's solution to the difficulty re-target yet, but I'm sure they will be getting coded and ready for testing soon. I also do not have the full list of what kind of solutions that will be put on testnet. The current solution on testnet is a PID ( http://www.csimn.com/CSI_pages/PIDforDummies.html ), with 16 block averaging for time. It is looking like 16 block averaging is too slow, and I am planning on dropping it down to 8 block averaging for the next round of "steady state" testing.

How much hashrate you need for testing ? I 'm also a volunteer. As I said to Maverickthenoob when I ran this pool "I will support the currency" (exact words). That means you can ask if you need something I can do. And I can put some hashrate on the testnet. For the question of the cost, I'm in the same positon as yours for the moment; So losing more or less is not the point now. If I was in need of a certain ROI, I could have made a tons of other investments.

Let me know.

_TQ

Thank you for your offer, and I will contact you via PM. I would request that when the time of the tests come, that you would be in IRC, so there won't be delays of when to start / stop the hash rate applied.