# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-10-31 17:36:18
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50223.msg601350#msg601350

Auto-reset once a month...  very interesting idea. @p{par}

It'd make a mess of peoples' testnet wallets@p{--} they'd be full of orphaned 0-confirmation transactions.  But deleting your testnet wallet once a month wouldn't be that big a burden, and that should prevent people from trading testnet coins as if they were worth something. @p{par}

Somebody who wanted to be annoying could still drive up difficulty after every reset and make life miserable for anybody testing their new exchange or merchant software, though. @p{par}

The problem with @p{(bf}just@p{bf)} doing more frequent difficulty adjustments is somebody with lots of hashing power can still over-write huge parts of the chain whenever they like. I suppose you could argue that bitcoin services should be written so that they can handle suddenly getting a 600-block-long chain-reorg... but that just does NOT happen on the real bitcoin network. @p{par}

More hare-brained thoughts: could automatic block-chain lock-ins for the testnet be implemented somehow?  Fetch a block depth/hash pair from a website somebody volunteers to create (auto-updated once a day...) ? @p{brk}