Testing signet (or testnet) for a bitcoin educational project - good faucets?
555 sats \ 11 comments \ @Signal312 12 Nov bitdevs
I'm putting together some bitcoin educational materials. Based on what I've been reading, it seems like Signet was a better option in a learning environment, so I've been trying that.
However, the only way I've actually gotten some signet coins is by using the Padawan learning app, and transferring to myself with that.
The signet faucets I've tried don't seem to actually work (https://signetfaucet.com/, https://signetfaucet.bublina.eu.org/)
Any thoughts on how to have students reliably and independently acquire signet? Any options I'm missing?
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55 sats \ 2 replies \ @OT 13 Nov
If you have a twitter account you can use mempool.space to get some (haven't tried as I no longer have an account).
I have testnet 3 coins I could give but the network is all messed up
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 OP 13 Nov
Thanks for the offer. Do you just pm a certain twitter account, or how does it work?
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 13 Nov
https://mempool.space/testnet4/faucet
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34 sats \ 1 reply \ @Rexdentron 13 Nov
Check out Tools Portal - SigNet Faucet
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 13 Nov
Oh, Polar is great for lightning stuff, we used it for SN before we switched to a custom setup.
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34 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 13 Nov
I can recommend mutinynet but it requires a fork of bitcoin to run, see footer.
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92 sats \ 3 replies \ @Signal312 OP 13 Nov
Interesting, thank you! Running a fork of bitcoin is a beyond my skill level right now.
So just using the regular signet didn't work for your purposes? I have an educational project in mind that would require many different users to get some signet coins, make some practice transactions, and view those transactions on a block explorer.
If you have any suggestions about how users could easily get the signet coins (or anything along those lines) I'd love to hear them.
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34 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 13 Nov
Running a fork of bitcoin is a beyond my skill level right now.
Are you currently running a node? If so, running a fork is no different.
So just using the regular signet didn't work for your purposes? I have an educational project in mind that would require many different users to get some signet coins, make some practice transactions, and view those transactions on a block explorer.
I think I went straight for mutinynet since I needed to run lightning and I wasn't aware of any other signet with a lightning network. Also, mutinynet has 30s blocks so you don't need to twiddle your thumbs as much.
If you have any suggestions about how users could easily get the signet coins (or anything along those lines) I'd love to hear them.
Sorry, I only have experience with mutinynet. It has all you need: a working faucet (onchain and lightning), a block explorer, LNURL, a fedimint and a cashu mint (probably more than you need actually).
What do you want to do exactly? Do you only want to have an onchain wallet which can send and receive bitcoins but no lightning? Lightning might be overwhelming initially so onchain-only would make sense.
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 OP 13 Nov
Yes, this is just for on-chain. I'm planning on using Sparrow.
I'd like to have students be able to get some signet sats, make transactions with them, and then follow the transactions in mempool.space. Preferably without me needing to dole out the signet sats manually.
Maybe I should switch to testnet 4?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 13 Nov
Yeah, I'd try testnet4 as mentioned by @OT if that's all you need before I'd mess with any signet.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @nym 13 Nov
Thanks for the reference.
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