I can implement simple checks that can filter out botnets and prevent the funnel from being sucked out. In general, I agree that giving large amounts is not right. But considering that if it is possible to facilitate coin mining as the scammers do in the pool, the issue of replenishing the wallet will not be a problem.
It is also not worth distributing more than 5 TBTC, I agree. But at first, the distribution will be no more than 0.0001% of the wallet - which is 50,000 BTC that should be for the funnel maximum. This is a large amount for ASIC at the moment. But it will not be for the CPU.
And the pool will allow mining for those who need more.

At the moment I'm trying to implement approaches that help guys get blocks. If I can implement them, then I'll launch a public Docker container for developers with a miner that will allow them to get personal coins, and not just through a faucet.



I'm still an ordinary DevOps engineer, not a blockchain specialist.
I have many ideas on how to qualitatively remake Docker images from mocacinno, because they are very untidy for me. But thanks to him, I was able to at least start testing this and mine now with rented ASICs.

Therefore, my actions and desires as a whole are meaningless and people have simply resigned themselves to it?

I launched my own. It's not expensive in terms of resources and money. If the community needs a pool, I can assemble it and launch it.
But I'm afraid there's not much point, against cpu mining

I have already mined 12 blocks. I do not plan to stop.

I understand that it is profitable for you when the testnet is traded. But I do not want to support this dirty business.

I launched this hack. But unfortunately the CPU miner does not directly support Bitcoind and I have to wrap everything in a separate ckpool
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5496494.msg64205870#msg64205870

I currently have 5 nodes with different time periods. Blocks are found but unfortunately not sent. Today I will try to change the option for sending them.

It seems to me that the only chance to stop what is happening now on testnet is to lead and distribute for free, thereby devaluing the test coin sales market.

Hello everyone. Now I have also encountered this pain.
For my project I needed a couple of thousand tBTC testnet4. I went the classic way, rented an ASIC. And then I came across the above descriptions not only in this topic.
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.
I am very sad about what is happening because of such a "bug"