Re: testnet drama.

Last I checked, there was about 1 EH (1,000 PH) of sha256d hashrate for rent through on an easy API.  If you really oppose what @Jameson Lopp is doing, you can do the following:

- Set up a testnet node.

- On that node, use the invalidateblock RPC to locally reject blocks that you think Lopp created.

- Setup a Stratum v1 server and connect it to your testnet node.

- Rent hashrate and point it at your stratum server.

That should be enough, but if someone tries to exploit the testnet difficulty drop to create long reorgs, set the time on your testnet node to 119 minutes in the future.

But, if you want to be productive, I suggest just switching to signet. 

 I've been playing around with setting up stratum servers and it's a lot harder than I expected! 

 Just set up SRI and its Sv2 proxy and call it a day? 

 Bonus points for getting testing on SRI and reporting bugs :) 

 I made the most progress with SRI but get a kernel panic after about 60 seconds after pointing a bunch of hashrate at it.

Might come back to it when I have more free time. 

 Where can we get more information about stratum v2? 

 Have you tried stratum v2?