Zero Knowledge
Description
In this episode, we sit down with Ethan (Bucky) Buchman, co-founder and CTO of Tendermint, to talk about testnets. We look into what they are, what purpose they serve and cover examples from Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos and Polkadot.
Links
https://karl.tech/intro-guide-to-ethereum-testnets/ (Testnets on Karl.tech)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04938 (The latest gossip on BFT consensus)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet (Bitcoin Testnet)
https://github.com/ethereum/ropsten (Ropsten Testnet)
https://medium.com/@Digix/announcing-kovan-a-stable-ethereum-public-testnet-10ac7cb6c85f (Kovan Testnet)
https://www.rinkeby.io/#stats (Rinkeby Testnet)
https://cosmos.network/docs/getting-started/full-node.html (Join the Cosmos testnet)
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/blob/master/README.md (Join the Polkadot testnet)