If you need some Ropsten Testnet ethers...

Hi All, I've synced to the new Ropsten (Revival) testnet as described in https://www.reddit.com/r/ethdev/comments/61cl8a/ropsten_revival_details_about_the_dos_attack_and/ .

I tried mining on a single CPU thread on a AMD FX(tm)-6350 Six-Core Processor 3900.000 MHz process and it mined one block in 1 day and 2 hours. So if I mined on all 6 threads, I would have mined one block every ~5 hours. A bit harder to mine than the pre-attack period.

I anyone would like some Ropsten ETH for your development or testing, just reply with your Ropsten testnet address. [E] Or send me a private message with your address.

From the link, the instructions to sync to the Ropsten (Revival) blockchain follows:

geth --testnet removedb
geth --testnet --fast --bootnodes "enode://20c9ad97c081d63397d7b685a412227a40e23c8bdc6688c6f37e97cfbc22d2b4d1db1510d8f61e6a8866ad7f0e17c02b14182d37ea7c3c8b9c2683aeb6b733a1@52.169.14.227:30303,enode://6ce05930c72abc632c58e2e4324f7c7ea478cec0ed4fa2528982cf34483094e9cbc9216e7aa349691242576d552a2a56aaeae426c5303ded677ce455ba1acd9d@13.84.180.240:30303"

And the EtherScan Ropsten block explorer is at https://ropsten.etherscan.io/ .

Other sources for Ropsten ethers - http://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/84/what-public-test-networks-and-faucets-exist/11392#11392 .

[E Apr 3 2017] My single thread CPU miner is now finding more than 20 blocks per day, so it should be feasible to CPU mine within an hour. There seems to be some periods of several hours (up to 12 hour) when no blocks are found - this could be someone GPU mining the blockchain periodically.