Clickbait: I’m giving away thousands of toknes :-)

A new release for Steem - that is v0.21 - is slowly approaching.
HF21 Release was just tagged

There was a lot of discussion regarding what is going to be changed, and I’m not going to repeat it here, but I’d like to focus on testing.

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A lot of effort needs to be put into ensuring that everything will work as expected.
The more eyes we have on that, the better the chance for spotting some potential flaws.

There’s a saying in Poland: ”Mądry Polak po szkodzie”.
Literally "A Pole is only wise after the damage is done"
In English, it roughly means that it’s easy to be wise with hindsight.

An important job to be done

We saw how things worked out with HF20, and we really don’t want a repeat performance of that with HF21.
Obviously, software development is prone to errors, errors were made, are made, and will always be made, but let's just try to minimize the chance of unexpectedly finding one at the worst possible time, while we can still track them before the next release.
It’s about OUR Steem, after all.

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job.
Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.

How to participate in testing? (Useful links)

Testnet Condenser instance: https://condensertestnet.steemitdev.com/
Testnet Steempeak instance (includes proposals): https://testnet.steempeak.com/proposals
Testnet Steemd instance: https://testnet.steemd.com/

Testnet API endpoint: https://testnet.steemitdev.com/
Testnet P2P endpoint: testnet.steemitdev.com:2001

GitHub repository for steemd / cli_wallet: https://github.com/steemit/steem
GitHub repository for steemit.com a.k.a. condenser: https://github.com/steemit/condenser
GitHub repository for steemitwallet.com: https://github.com/steemit/wallet

On a testnet, there are equivalents of real tokens to safely distinguish them from the real world:
STEEM -> TESTS
SBD -> TBD
Steem Power -> Tests Power
They have NO VALUE. They are for testing purposes only.

How does this look?

Here are some screenshots

^{- Testnet witnesses}

^{- Testnet steemd}

^{- Testnet steemproposals by @dmitrydao}

^{- Testnet Steempeak}

^{- Testnet Steempeak Proposals}

^{- GitHub Issues}

Too risky?

Some of you might hesitate to use a main net Private Keys on a less secure testing sites.
That’s why here are 10 accounts for YOU to try.

testnet-hero0
testnet-hero1
testnet-hero2
testnet-hero3
testnet-hero4
testnet-hero5
testnet-hero6
testnet-hero7
testnet-hero8
testnet-hero9

Initial Active Private Key: 5KQawv7RmDX6rCe9Ugd199uGmxRFsMtccJaPa6WbJZuE83WiYzD
Initial Active Public Key: TST6EZXhp3r3LmbyhicmQeDCiWF1uvzkbUbjYHyTv8yfbQUmcyhwd

Initial Posting Private Key: 5K7aQRzSaDu1mSsqnw1D3A3ywt9ZbPVn8dtCZCWG1bYCZ6Nhh52
Initial Posting Public Key: TST8XvsRZthJv41zUVwXtCBFhA4RtELfRijBvL9aF27C6HYtmKWgW

Initial Memo Private Key: 5KUgUsPMx8D3emNGsv7aseENLAgMvKFkXrTkPXdXPEj28JpW79N
Initial Memo Public Key: TST7h2anMDGFhm7wjYsHyDsnn7aQMoRuZ3qdDLTGPWHCHF9oNKZP3

They will work only on the testnet (please don’t use those keys anywhere else, treat them as compromised)
and only on this very specific instance of the testnet (they need to be recreated when the testnet is re-initialized)

I’ve transferred 1000 TBD (Testnet SBD equivalent) to each of those accounts and delegated some Tests Power.

If you need a private account, with keys that only you would know, feel free to ask me on Steem.Chat, and I will create one for you.

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