Signet

Signet is both a tool that allows developers to create networks for testing interactions between different Bitcoin software and the name of the most popular of these testing networks.

Blocks on signets are only valid if they’re signed by a key used to create that signet. This gives the creator complete control over block production, allowing them to choose the rate of block production or when forks occur. This can provide a much better controlled network environment than proof-of-work testnets where adversarial miners can use various tricks to make the network practically unusable for long periods of time.

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Signet

2019-12-28 2019 year-in-review: signet
2019-11-13 Signet protocol published as BIP325
2019-09-11 Eltoo demo implementation using custom signet
2019-08-21 C-Lightning 0.7.2.1 released with support for signet
2019-07-24 C-Lightning adds support for signet
2019-07-24 Progress on signet
2019-06-12 CoreDev.tech discussion: signet
2019-03-12 Feedback requested on signet

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