Is Signet Bitcoin?

Hello,

The pull request to the bips repository for Signet has stalled, as the maintainer isn't sure Signet should have a BIP at all, i.e. "is Signet Bitcoin?".

My argument is that Signet is indeed Bitcoin and should have a BIP, as this facilitates the interoperability between different software in the Bitcoin space.

Feedback welcome, here or on the pull request itself: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/803

I would also like to agree that Signet should be a BIP.

Problem: Testnet is unreliable. *Testnet is used often for development of Bitcoin*. Proposal: To improve the dev environment for Bitcoin, let's create a new kind of testnet that is more reliable.

I would also like to hear the logic behind "Testnet is Bitcoin" but "Signet is not Bitcoin"... both are not 100% compatible with mainnet consensus processes.

-Jon

Indeed, Signet is no less (or more) Bitcoin than a seed format or BIP 32. It’s “not Bitcoin” but it’s certainly “interoperability for how to build good testing for Bitcoin”.

> On Oct 14, 2019, at 19:55, Karl-Johan Alm via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation•org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> The pull request to the bips repository for Signet has stalled, as the
> maintainer isn't sure Signet should have a BIP at all, i.e. "is Signet
> Bitcoin?".
>
> My argument is that Signet is indeed Bitcoin and should have a BIP, as
> this facilitates the interoperability between different software in
> the Bitcoin space.
>
> Feedback welcome, here or on the pull request itself:
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/803
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