Date: December 6, 2021

Participants: Alex, Anthony, Sam, Rett

Quick Summary: Engineering Standup & Answering Questions regarding the first day of testnet2

Notes:

Key Points:

• testnet has been much more competitive than anticipated
  • the cumulative weight of the chain is very high, more or less than stable
• 150 people who have mined blocks, several have mined multiple blocks
• going to be updating and making changes throughout the entire testnet period
• the incentivized portion of the testnet starts at block 18,000
• fork depth of 4,096
• be respectful in feedback and interact respectful with other community and team members

General Notes:

Questions:

• Why is there forking behavior?
  • there will be forks on the network, part of the natural process
  • as more competitive and a higher amount of miners join the network, the less this will occur
• Why do you fork past 18,000 block height? Can we reset back to a specific height?
  • we shouldn't want to revert just because there are forks. But focus on how the forks resolve themselves.
• Some people have pending blocks. Is this a networking issue?
  • not a networking issue, but there are a lot of miners vs clients
  • spinning up many more client nodes and distributing them geographically around the world to better connect the network
  • seeing the consequence of a few miners purposely not connecting to many peers
    • this is a risky strategy but is also driving some of these deeper forks