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Re: Need large amount of testnet bitcoin, can someone help me?
by
kabirheal
on 12/05/2021, 05:59:15 UTC
I understand completely. I wonder why the block reward is so small though, shouldn't it match mainnet, more or less.

I don't follow Bitcoin's testnet closely, but I assume it's because the difficulty drops back to 1 whenever no block has been found for 20 minutes [1]? At least that would explain testnet's block height of beyond 1.6M [2] which means it already went through 7 halvings which would correspond with the block subsidy mocacinno mentioned.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet
[2] https://live.blockcypher.com/btc-testnet/


thank you issue has been solved.