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The genesis block title by @jlopp is great. It refers to a failure of the previous thing. If people start to value testnet4 coins to the extend where its genesis...

Here's a commit that makes `getblocktemplate` reorg low difficulty testnet4 blocks: https://github.com/Sjors/bitcoin/commit/2125fc56163ceaddfadbc78ad0d0da5b1a99a8fa It adds some complexity, but not in the validation code. I wonder if it would be useful on...

> I don't have S9s lying around unfortunately I do, special discount for genesis blocks :-) > use the 20min rule for mining their fancy non-standard transactions etc When a...

utACK f2e3662e57eca1330962faf38ff428a564d50a11

> Something a bit more concrete. We could consolidate all packages in depends to .tar.gz (which is also what we use for releases), and drop `bzip2` and eventually `xz`. Concept...

@laanwj did you mean `'-b', BRANCH` instead of `'-b', branch`? I also get a difference on qrencode when running this on macOS 13.6.6 with Python 3.12.1.

Tested the Guix build on Windows 11. Code changes look reasonable, but Windows stuff is not my expertise...

Briefly retested 83c6332dc7b8145b19d725830b26dc4ef21e4b61 which still works.

I assume you added b69b9e85e98cac2c7585c9b613185dc6c80320cc because it no longer uses an external dependency? Is there something you can remove from cpp-subprocess based on your comment? https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29961#issuecomment-2100521158

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