Introducing the first ever public steem testnet!

almost-digital (61) in steemdev • 8 years ago (edited)

Greetings fellow Steemians! Today very I'm excited to announce STX, an alternative Steem blockchain with a modest pre-mine of 1,000,000,000 STEEM.

Features:

1,000,000,000 STEEM pre-mined and controlled by yours truly.
Anyone can create a new account funded with 100 STEEM via a simple POST request. No verification required!
Ephemeral blockchain! No more high memory requirements to run a full node, all data is wiped every month (or so).
Never misses a block! With only one witness it has blazingly fast transaction times.

Join the revolution today! – testnet.steem.vc

Edit: Just to clarify, this is a tongue-in-cheek introduction of a developer tool, It's not a real steem blockchain! Its intended to be used for automated testing of apps and libraries.

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8 years ago by almost-digital (61)

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jesta (71) · 8 years ago (edited)

The dev community needs this so much, excellent job.

I'd love to see this taken to the next step as well - let's get a couple people running testnet servers and APIs, set them up as witnesses, and actually use it for development on projects. It would take a bit more coordination, maybe a reset every X months instead of 1, but not too much of a hassle.

I would hook up a copy of steemdb as an explorer and plug my development version of chainBB into it. Would prevent me from having to spam the steem blockchain wth test data!

inertia (73) · 8 years ago

almost-digital (61) · 8 years ago

Thanks! That sounds great, let's do it! :)

jesta (71) · 8 years ago

Do you happen to have your modified testnet source up on github anywhere?

almost-digital (61) · 8 years ago

No, I can put it up tonight. But the patch is here in the comments if you scroll down a bit.

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alexpmorris (65) · 8 years ago (edited)

yeah, I've been also looking for a steem testnet as well. can't believe no one's put one up yet after all this time - I sort of just figured I wasn't looking in the right place! lol

kudos to you for taking the initiative on it!

ps. also really like your giant door-knocker! lol

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almost-digital (61) · 8 years ago

Hehe thanks! Sorry I wasn't there to open, you should check back another time ;)

calamus056 (58) · 8 years ago (edited)

Very nice indeed! I assumed there already was a testnet, but i guess not haha. Maybe this will motivate me more to actually start developing something. Always have lots of ideas floating around in my head.

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rossdcurrie (50) · 8 years ago

It's been a week, is it ready yet? :D

Have been considering some Steem app development and was totally thinking what a shame it would be to put test data in the live blockchain

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noisy (67) · 8 years ago (edited)

I guess you need to configure everything in a slightly different way than mainnet. Could you share the sources of whole configuration?

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sarapm (42) · 8 years ago

I really like what you doing

almost-digital (61) · 8 years ago

Thanks! More coming :)

djvidov (61) · 8 years ago

This test environment will be really useful for me for the next app that I prepare. It will remain open?

almost-digital (61) · 8 years ago

Yes, feel free to use it!

personz (66) · 8 years ago

Awesome, looking forward to try this out 😆

amexperts (46) · 8 years ago

This is awesome. I have just started developing an idea for steem and didnt like that I might have to test with dummy data while developing. Thanks a lot from devs current and future!

almost-digital (61) · 8 years ago

Thanks! I'm happy that you find it useful!

kasperfred (58) · 8 years ago

I really like what you're doing. Keep it up!

almost-digital (61) · 8 years ago

Thanks man!

nihilum (37) · 8 years ago

Scam alert. Sounds fishy, nothing is free.

noisy (67) · 8 years ago

calm down.. this is testnet. You can also get free Bitcoins or ETH in their testnet. Looks legit.

almost-digital (61) · 8 years ago

I'll send you 1,000,000 testnet coins if you want, no strings attached!

cryptopreneur (39) · 8 years ago (edited)

what can he do with those testcoins? it's only for test. * tongue in cheek*

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nihilum (37) · 8 years ago (edited)

Don't listen to him, thanks to those testcoins, my computer became a sentient being. The robot revolution has started.
We need

Sarah Connor

samrg472 (60) · 8 years ago

Looks promising! Thanks for sharing

almost-digital (61) · 8 years ago

Cheers

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inertia (73) · 8 years ago

Works great. My #radiator tools work fine pointing at this blockchain. Well done.

almost-digital (61) · 8 years ago

Awesome!

geechidan (56) · 8 years ago

Any idea if this can be used in conjunction with something else...like a game? SO like, the STEEM is used within a game interface...not an app per say but a web based game environment??

jesta (71) · 8 years ago

Yes, it could be modified for that, as long as the game is slow and fits within the confines of the blockchain.

geechidan (56) · 8 years ago

Interesting. Where would you recommend I would look on this "world wide web" for more information on that?

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grayolson (25) · 8 years ago

There's not gonna be a good source for everything you'd need to know in one place. What do you want to know about it? How you'd go about making a game that hooks into Steem? How Steem works? Why there would be limitations?

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geechidan (56) · 8 years ago

Well I know what platform to use for the web based game... but my thing is I don't think I fully understand how to incorporate the two together. meaning the crypto currency and the game for example.

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larry2656 (31) · 8 years ago

That's great, it looks so promising. I am sure we can join hands and support to create it to be much more than we imagine it to be...

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mkhan6131 (36) · 8 years ago

wow, good job

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asuleymanov (50) · 8 years ago

Super. This is what I needed so much. Thank you so much.

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outhori5ed (66) · 8 years ago

great job

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almost-digital (61) · 8 years ago

Thanks!

radiasi (51) · 8 years ago

Good.nice pos.vote me

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darkerhorse (53) · 8 years ago

this is great, congrats to you.

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almost-digital (61) · 8 years ago

Cheers!

rawpride (62) · 8 years ago

What can I do on there with this 100 steem?

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randowhale (67) · 8 years ago

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cashburn (16) · 6 years ago

Hi
I'm studying steem-js
wanted to test at https://testnet.steem.vc
But I do not know where to start ...
Although, he created a user, as written on the site:
http post: https://testnet.steem.vc/create username = foo password = barman
(credentials, of course changed)
But we need keys, I understand they need to be generated?
But how and with what?
I hope you can help me.

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cryptopreneur (39) · 8 years ago (edited)

wait what???? hmmm....trying this so can help some of my friends and families still on a waiting list. Can't say I didn't try.

Anyone can create a new account funded with 100 STEEM via a simple POST request. No verification required!

and then you said this.

Edit: Just to clarify, this is a tongue-in-cheek introduction of a developer tool, It's not a real steem blockchain! Its intended to be used for automated testing of apps and libraries.

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almost-digital (61) · 8 years ago

lol! Sorry to get your hopes up

marc0o (35) · 7 years ago

@almost-digital unfortunately the testnet seems to be down. could you provide me information or a guide how to run my own testnet? that would be awesome!

I want to play around with steem without spamming the public network

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almost-digital (61) · 7 years ago

Works for me. No guide but my testnet branch is here https://github.com/jnordberg/steem/tree/testnet

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marc0o (35) · 7 years ago

ok now it works again. 2 days ago when I checked it was offline. thanks for the link to your testnet-branch! :-)

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qwerpoiu (25) · 8 years ago

Very good work. Thank you.
I have been also working on some tests with a testnet with a different public key.
Just a question, how did you generated this new public key? What would be the best way to generate? Did you use a simple secret password as the own testnet in steem is working?

#ifdef IS_TEST_NET
#define STEEMIT_INIT_PRIVATE_KEY (fc::ecc::private_key::regenerate(fc::sha256::hash(std::string("init_key"))))
#define STEEMIT_INIT_PUBLIC_KEY_STR (std::string( steemit::protocol::public_key_type(STEEMIT_INIT_PRIVATE_KEY.get_public_key()) ))
#define STEEMIT_CHAIN_ID (fc::sha256::hash("testnet"))

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almost-digital (61) · 8 years ago

Yep, you can generate it with cli_wallet as well but make sure to build it with the correct address prefix first

qwerpoiu (25) · 8 years ago

what do you mean with correct address prefix first?

hql2016 (58) · 8 years ago

Congrats for the idea and the implementation!

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luckize (38) · 8 years ago

This sounds nice

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teamhumble (74) · 8 years ago

I have zero idea of what this does and why i would need it. But it sounds like you are excited about it. So props! :)

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almost-digital (61) · 8 years ago

Heh, guess not many people here also hang out on bitcointalk :) I updated the post to clarify it's just a developer tool

teamhumble (74) · 8 years ago

Roger that! I understand you're excited but you've been releasing some cool stuff so i get excited for tools especially when they are steemit related! :)

noisy (67) · 8 years ago

for example.. if you would like to test a website, which would help create accounts on Steem, without Steemit, then... without testnet you need spent a lot of resources, and waste some accounts names.

Thanks to testnet developers will be able to do that for free, without wasting resources of the main network.

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teamhumble (74) · 8 years ago

that's cool. i like that, so basically a sandbox of sorts.

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deserttree (56) · 8 years ago

what is this fore?

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

Is there any visual interface test net or just accessible via API?

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almost-digital (61) · 7 years ago

I have a condenser instance running that you can use https://condenser.steem.vc

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

Oh wow, perfect! Thanks!

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alexpmorris (65) · 7 years ago

just a heads up, I think your certificate expired on the testnet!

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almost-digital (61) · 7 years ago

Thanks, didn't reload nginx after I updated the old one, should serve the new one now. Cheers

alexpmorris (65) · 7 years ago (edited)

btw, have you thought about setting up a steemconnect2 testnet to your testnet as well?

almost-digital (61) · 7 years ago

I haven't until now :) that's something worth exploring

alexpmorris (65) · 7 years ago

I got it mostly working, if you do decide to add it, let me know if you get stuck anywhere as I may have already figured that part out. for example, make sure you change the line in checkEncryption() from steemconnect/node_modules/steem/lib/auth/memo.js to:

var pubkey = 'STX8m5UgaFAAYQRuaNejYdS8FVLVp9Ss3K1qAVk5de6F8s3HnVbvA';

(note the STX versus STM)

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timelyshot (25) · 4 years ago

This is really cool. I look forward to using it.

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eddi (35) · 8 years ago

So,

I got really annoyed today and still am a little pissed /-:

I have 2 questions for the community here:

How can I track Steemdollar on the Blockchain, can one even do that ?!
How long does it take for steemdollars to transact?!

I was trying to track my transaction on the steemdollar blockchain and I couldn't.
But from the sending point the transaction is completed so it should be on the blockchain somewhere...

Tried both explorers provided by coinmarketcap.com and tried googling it - no result.

https://steemdb.com/

https://steemd.com/

found another link that I can't find now, but anyways no clue if one can track anything with it , I couldn't..

Then I tried to check the account by using the transaction code tx.. - no success.

Please help!

Thank you (-:

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mohammadreza (47) · 8 years ago

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