remcoros on Nostr: I don't think its a matter of attacking/defending testnet. The root cause is the '20 ...
I don't think its a matter of attacking/defending testnet. The root cause is the '20 minute rule' active on testnet3/4. This can be abused (spoofing timestamp up to 2 hours), but it's there for a reason: to not stall the entire chain. Coins have no value, so normal miner game theory doesn't apply, because miners come and go while testing their software/hardware. If there was a better alternative to the '20 minute rule', we can just launch a testnet 5 with different (better?) rules.
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