Imagine a platform with your kind of traffic giving out a substantial amount of testnet completely for free. Do you think it'll make you more money?
I don't know.
I frequently joke around that when we are no longer the number one source, we will be rich. The irony of being victorious by losing is pretty beautiful to me.
Lastly, you having to share that thread here is quite funny, I read it when it was published, and didn't know about you selling testnets, and it got me wondering why you didn't ask for testnet like the other members did, now I understand that developers now know of you, and may decline testnet coin request coming through you, do you see it as a challenge?
Not at all. I don't think anyone can ban me from anything on the internet that I don't want to be banned from.
Persistence is the key to resistance.
It's true. But let's see how long testnet3 remains alive when Bitcoin Core and other software dropped support for testnet3. AFAIK testnet1 and testnet2 no longer alive today.
I think the interesting question in regards to this is: How long will it take services to update to v4?
As of right now, in Bitcoin terms, where Bitcoin = whatever version has the most value + acceptance... v3 would be considered "Testnet" and v4 is just an altcoin fork. It'll be interesting to see how the experiment goes.
FWIW, running your own testnet or signet would be cheaper. It's so easy that i found someone build and share their own signet on I setup a new bitcoin signet, welcome to use it. To reader with a bit of technical skill, you can follow this guide https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Signet.
Good for some people, but this does not meet the needs of those trying to test by interacting with each other in a noncentralized environment.
You wouldn't believe how many request I get for a signet market... These folks are truly baffling.
produce a lot of blocks (to the point, that it will break some services, which use testnet3, as it was the case, when Jameson Lopp did it).
Tbh, the blockstorms are nice... things confirm really fast, and happy users move their coins around the network swiftly.
It actually helped our service. It killed the miners, but Testnet miners don't care. They are just excited to see blocks.