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melvincarvalho | 5 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Leaving unsolicited the personal attack to one side.  You are not making a credible argument.  The topic was the attack on testnet3.  And you've created a false equivalence.  It comes accross as a bad faith argument that is not productive, so I'll thank you for your opinion and we can agree to differ.
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vnprc | 5 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Ha! Very well. We are communicating ineffectively on different topics.

fwiw testnet3 was being abused by scammers. They found a way to extract value from any proof of work network so the utility of testnet3  to the bitcoin movement as a whole had fallen below zero (this is a subjective value judgement). It was overdue for a refresh because it became too hard to get new coins.

Fabian Jahr (who is awesome btw) took it upon himself to lead the charge for a new testnet4 without the protocol vulnerabilities of testnet3. He is continuing that work, most recently with a project to fork off chains of 0-difficulty blocks mined by scammers on testnet4. This last project won 3rd place at a hackathon I participated in. 🤙