Make setting up a regtest network easier
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- blockchain, cli, developer-experience
Research direction
Begin by reproducing the Elements equivalent of bitcoind -regtest and record the behavior of -regtest, -chain=elementsregtest, -server=1, and the default coin setup. Read the startup handling for these options and the rescanblockchain RPC. Done means regtest setup is straightforward, the RPC port is visible, and a default chain provides usable coins without the workarounds described.
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Description
Some things I have ran into many times in the past that are just really annoying for developer experience:
-regtestgives you bitcoin regtest. Should really make that equivalent to-chain=elementsregtest.-server=1doesn't print what RPC port is being listened to. This might be a bitcoind issue too, but anyone can google the default regtest RPC port for Bitcoin, I always spend 3 minutes trying to figure out what the one for elementsregtest is and eventually giving up and using-rpcport=8888..- There are no coins in the default chain. I know this might be a feature, but if no parent chain info is given, maybe there should be money. I tried adding
-initialfreecoins=2100000000000000 -anyonecanspendaremine=1also without success. So I'm now at figuring out how to add money. It seems like therescanblockchainrpc is needed now.
All this which in Bitcoin is just bitcoind -regtest is a real pain for Elements..
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