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The testnet is a network separate from the main Bitcoin network that allows developers to attempt modifications of the bitcoin protocol safely and test in-development software without risking money.

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Testnet for bitcoin - are there multiple operating?

There is no such thing as a private testnet, you can obviously create one, but then it won't be of much use to provide data regarding a private blockchain to the public. … BitEasy's block explorer for the testnet doesn't seem to be working. They don't have data even for dates a month prior to the date you asked this question. …
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How to specify testnet via curl against json-rpc?

When the testnet bitcoind is running on your system, port 18332 is open to accept rpc's. In case of mainnet, that port changes to 8332. …
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Testnet difficulty change

Testnet has a built in functionality that changes the difficulty to 1 if the mining process takes 20 minutes or longer. This question explains the dropping of difficulty to 1. …
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To run bitcoin core testnet on Ubuntu 16.04

After having installed Bitcoin core on your machine, run the following command to start synchronising the testnet blockchain bitcoind -testnet -daemon The synchronisation starts as a daemon and runs in … the background, you can issue the following the command to see the progress tailf ~/.bitcoin/testnet3/debug.log To access the command line apis , just add the -testnet parameter bitcoin-cli -testnet getinfo …
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