Is Signet Bitcoin?

Is Signet Bitcoin?
2019-10-15  4:38 ` Jonathan Underwood
  2019-10-15  5:33 ` Matt Corallo
  
From: Karl-Johan Alm @ 2019-10-15  2:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion

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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2019-10-15  2:54 [bitcoin-dev] Is Signet Bitcoin? Karl-Johan Alm

  2019-10-15  5:33 ` Matt Corallo
  
From: Jonathan Underwood @ 2019-10-15  4:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Karl-Johan Alm via bitcoin-dev

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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

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2019-10-15  2:54 [bitcoin-dev] Is Signet Bitcoin? Karl-Johan Alm
  2019-10-15  4:38 ` Jonathan Underwood

  
From: Matt Corallo @ 2019-10-15  5:33 UTC ( / )
  To: Karl-Johan Alm, Bitcoin Protocol Discussion

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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