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# Various test vectors
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## mainnet_alt.json
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For easier testing the difficulty is maximally increased in the first (and only)
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regarget period, by producing blocks approximately 2 minutes apart.
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The alternate mainnet chain was generated as follows:
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- use faketime to set node clock to 2 minutes after genesis block
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- mine a block using a CPU miner such as https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer
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- restart node with a faketime 2 minutes later
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```sh
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for i in {1..2015}
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do
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faketime "`date -d @"$(( 1231006505 + $i * 120 ))" +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'`" \
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bitcoind -connect=0 -nocheckpoints -stopatheight=$i
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done
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```
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The CPU miner is kept running as follows:
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```sh
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./minerd --coinbase-addr 1NQpH6Nf8QtR2HphLRcvuVqfhXBXsiWn8r --no-stratum --algo sha256d --no-longpoll --scantime 3 --retry-pause 1
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```
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The payout address is derived from first BIP32 test vector master key:
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```
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pkh(xprv9s21ZrQH143K3QTDL4LXw2F7HEK3wJUD2nW2nRk4stbPy6cq3jPPqjiChkVvvNKmPGJxWUtg6LnF5kejMRNNU3TGtRBeJgk33yuGBxrMPHi/44h/0h/0h/<0;1>/*)#fkjtr0yn
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```
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It uses `pkh()` because `tr()` outputs at low heights are not spendable (`unexpected-witness`).
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This makes each block determinisic except for its timestamp and nonce, which
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are stored in `mainnet_alt.json` and used to reconstruct the chain without
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having to redo the proof-of-work.
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The timestamp was not kept constant because at difficulty 1 it's not sufficient
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to only grind the nonce. Grinding the extra_nonce or version field instead
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would have required additional (stratum) software. It would also make it more
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complicated to reconstruct the blocks in this test.
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