It will be opened when possible. It's still under development. If you want to help test, use a sandbox.

Less than a week. I am working on a custom retargeting for the hybrid PoW/PoS. This will be the last core change before phase 2 and eventual release of BreakoutCoin and the source.

Looking forward to the testing. 

Will there be a pool set up to mine on?

Yes. One week was an estimate, but it appears to be taking longer. Also, your question seems to allude to Breakout Coin specifically. This thread is about the multicurrency platform. If you would like more specific information about Breakout Coin, please contact the bitcointalk user BreakoutCoin for an invitation to the slack channel.

To be clear, Breakout Coin is an application of the multicurrency platform. The test net is to test the multicurrency functionality, not to get to a release of Breakout Coin, per se.

I thought it would be one week to the second phase of the test net two weeks ago, but in the meantime I went to the bitcoin conference in San Diego and wasn't able to get much work done there. And for another week, I had some different work unexpectedly dominate my time.

The second round of the multicurrency test net will include new features, like hybrid PoW/PoS with fee scavenging, that I feel are important for security.

You will get regular updates and real-time interaction with me in the Breakout Coin slack. Contact user BreakoutCoin to request an invite.

I've received some testnet requests from newbs. To qualify for the lottery you will need to be at least a full member with a substantive post history. I will read your back posts and determine eligibility myself before I enter your account in a lottery. Jr Members and below may be eligible for other incentives. Newbs may not get a reply.

Retargeting Fix


I made a new retargeting algorithm that had a bug, causing a lot of chain forks. Testers will need to update their clients.

Please follow the instructions below and make sure you use the bootstrap provided.

Links to the update are here: https://github.com/multicurrency/Breakout-Releases/

You'll see that BAM is gone from the GUI. You haven't lost your coins, I just put Sistercoin in its place. You will be able to mine Sistercoin when the block height hits 4500.

PLEASE​ unzip and put the bootstrap file (at the above link) into your Breakout/testnet data directory and then restart the client. This will get you on the best chain.

This update should allow you to mine.


Other Items
1. There is a typo where immature BRO will look like SIS on the overview page of the new client. This will be fixed today.
2. I am still processing testnet enrollment requests. I should get to everyone within a few hours.
3. Testnet enrollment closes in about 13 hours from the time of this post. All current requests will be processed. After 6 AM GMT, no further requests will be accepted. I will go by the timestamp of your request not when I get around to processing it.
4. Anyone can mine Sistercoin to participate in the testnet, but this does not qualify you for lotteries. You have to enroll with me.

Thank you for those instructions!!

Here's what I posted to the slack, which explains what you found:

There is one more bug related to the forking issue I fixed last night. People will fork if they restart their client because I forgot to write some retargeting info to the block index. It gets lost when the client restarts and so retargeting is wrong for the client that restarted and it will start banning peers. I'll have a fix tonight.

In the meantime, if you keep your clients running, the network will hold together until the fix. If you stop your client for any reason, just rename bootstrap.dat.old back to bootstrap.dat and you'll get back on the right chain.

The fix will take care of this.

If you forget to rename bootstrap.dat.old on a restart and ban everyone, just stop, rename bootstrap.dat.old to bootstrap.dat, delete your peers.dat, and start again. You'll get on the right chain.

In the meantime, mining looks good. Expect to start getting Sistercoin blocks in less than 4 hours.

Sistercoin mining



Algorithm: sha256d


RPC Port: 60542


Windows miner that will work with version 6 block template:
http://cryptomining-blog.com/wp-content/download/cpuminer-multi-1-2-dev.zip


Running the miner:


The number after the "-t" is the number of cores to mine with. The above command mines with just 1 core.


Conf file name: breakout.conf


Location of conf file: "Breakout" folder in roaming folder (Windows)  or  "Library/Application Support" (OS X).


Example conf (Thanks to LovSan):