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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: BTC Testnet
by
n0nce
on 12/01/2024, 09:59:59 UTC
You saw the difficulties of mining Testnet
It's not difficult; all you need is any USB ASIC miner and wait for the next 20-minute block interval.

Nullama, your guide worked great (besides the few points I raised)! Amazing; I hadn't expected to mine multiple blocks per day.
In fact, I managed to grab almost 30 blocks in 24h. Shocked Sitting at roughly 0.9tBTC right now.
Even consecutive blocks a few times... I must have very good network latency or something. Only a single Compac F hashing at just under 300GH/s.

We do not force to buy, and do not deceive anyone
The deception is that Testnet coins are worthless by design.

Testnet coins are separate and distinct from actual bitcoins, and are never supposed to have any value. This allows application developers or bitcoin testers to experiment, without having to use real bitcoins or worrying about breaking the main bitcoin chain.

You won't be able to mine a lot
That's wrong; see above. Furthermore, for their use case (testing and experimenting), you can use tiny fractions of BTC and won't ever need huge amounts of tBTC. The amounts you really need for this use case, can be received for free from various faucets and forum threads here.