I am pleased to announce that Decred testnet is going live today, Wednesday, January 27th. Decred testnet is intended to be used as a sandbox for testing the various features and behavior of Decred. Interested parties are now free to experiment on testnet with:
- Sending and receiving transactions
- PoW mining software, e.g. cgminer
- PoS mining with dcrwallet
- Writing or porting software for Decred
Decred testnet
- dcrd – the chain daemon
- dcrwallet – the wallet daemon
- dcrctl – the command line RPC tool
- cgminer – mining software
The dcrd, dcrwallet and dcrctl binaries are provided for both 32 and 64-bit versions of the following OSes: Windows, OS X, Linux, DragonflyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. CGminer is provided as a binary for 32 and 64-bit Windows and Linux.