For my project I needed a couple of thousand tBTC testnet4. I went the classic way, rented an ASIC.
This post comes to mind:
It was just a proof of concept, maybe @garlonicon can tell you if he went through with it:
Mining Pool
The follow-up to this would be to run a public (solo) pool with this enabled so that we can get some more hash rate behind this without requiring any effort on the side of those with hash rate and demotivate the spammers.
Maybe it is worth sharing an option on how to repeat CPU mining. I am ready to launch 10-50 of nodes and pools to cut off the ability of this individual to mine so much and make a faucet for free distribution of coins.
You'll be competing against
this:
2025-04-15T07:45:00Z Saw new header hash=00000000d4bb57160f4bf79df02d7245093be5251357b63882acca371a3adf13 height=77526
2025-04-15T07:45:00Z Saw new cmpctblock header hash=00000000d4bb57160f4bf79df02d7245093be5251357b63882acca371a3adf13 peer=8546
2025-04-15T07:45:00Z UpdateTip: new best=00000000d4bb57160f4bf79df02d7245093be5251357b63882acca371a3adf13 height=77526 version=0x20000000 log2_work=73.103421 tx=9068836 date='2025-04-15T09:45:00Z' progress=1.000000 cache=661.0MiB(3518748txo)
2025-04-15T07:45:00Z Saw new header hash=0000000083e6fbdc737cfbbf123404f7dc94fb2abf181987f91965e6d3643bed height=77526
2025-04-15T07:45:00Z Saw new header hash=0000000021ac2b9d946ed7bcb1c88d12c0de5aa6c72b9e7b597bbe4ce852d08a height=77526
2025-04-15T07:45:00Z Saw new header hash=00000000495c2d7d3dcf04acb3e1a5ab5b7da773a384669c81d08f8d89b17a83 height=77526
2025-04-15T07:45:00Z Saw new header hash=000000005361bf2fe3ef9b6c6245a3d73d891daaebe5c0559a36ff3d48ef8924 height=77526
2025-04-15T07:45:00Z Saw new header hash=000000003d0ea3678664743c10e74f29f822604bc5d250d3cc5779c4def48a39 height=77526
2025-04-15T07:45:00Z Saw new header hash=000000007e73e3f2b17cab98cf76882972bc503a0c26fef230d89ff5ea5b3dd8 height=77526
2025-04-15T07:45:00Z Saw new header hash=00000000d2ad5d7913b1b27191533586fa55739828c6c8b9e99aaee8e756558f height=77526
2025-04-15T07:45:00Z Saw new header hash=00000000657631d363ac3246d2d234f4e265efbbe85e22be5e55af0d21615e15 height=77526
2025-04-15T07:45:00Z Saw new header hash=00000000be376e2874f543ab902058a17455f028c2e3d1a4ce94b9b0276bfb37 height=77526
2025-04-15T07:45:01Z Saw new header hash=00000000656235cb44f06aef0340ca8f160fed287f70d232c39146a89b09176e height=77526
2025-04-15T07:45:01Z Saw new header hash=00000000dbdd4ae193925dc7213a88f669b41ee72924530bfe3d77e7ff6755fa height=77526
2025-04-15T07:45:01Z Saw new header hash=000000005c3f7f369dad92a0bff57b867089692c4c1cea10bc353c712554b0b5 height=77526
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