< gmaxwell>
Fun fact: Mainchain has only 168223 times the total work in the testnet chain.
< helo>
5 orders of magnitude... that's in the ballpark of cpu -> asic :D
< phantomcircuit>
gmaxwell, i suspect that's partially a result of the testnet chain being twice as long
< phantomcircuit>
how much of the difference is from diff 1 blocks?
< helo>
wouldn't diff 1 blocks be negligible total work?
< gmaxwell>
yep, they're negligble work.
< * luke-jr>
wonders why we added abandontransaction again, considering there is literally no safe way to use it, and it is now being given out as "advice" which can result in lost bitcoins
< sipa>
it only works for unconfirmed transactions not in the mempool, right?
< luke-jr>
yes, IIRC
< luke-jr>
but nothing stops someone from having and mining it