# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-11-24 02:28:53
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50223.msg629178#msg629178

Yes, who cares if you get extra testnet coins? @p{par}

But... if somebody wanted to be annoying, they'd pre-generate as long a min-difficulty coinbase-only-transaction chain as the block timestamp rules allowed, and constantly broadcast those blocks.  Just to prevent transactions from getting confirmed. @p{par}

To prevent that... @p{par}

Testnet could prefer to build on blocks with more transactions from the memory pool over blocks with fewer transactions from the memory pool (that's not a bad rule for main net, either; might be worth considering if it works well for testnet). The rule now is "build on first valid block seen". @p{par}

And "discourage" (refuse to directly build on or relay) blocks with timestamps in the future. @p{brk}